OpenOffice Presentation Primer Tutorial

OpenOffice Presentation Primer Tutorial

Here is a tutorial that shows you some presentation functionality of a great suite of office automation programs called OpenOffice, by Apache Software Foundation. OpenOffice has functionality like the Microsoft Office suite of programs, bringing the user a lot of the feel of those well loved concepts to your document creation work, and integrated into the one place. Today we do a bit of work that Microsoft Powerpoint might do for you, but in OpenOffice the default presentation format has an extension of .odp.

Apache OpenOffice (AOO) is an open-source office productivity software suite. It descends from OpenOffice.org and IBM Lotus Symphony.[5]

Apache OpenOffice contains a word processor (Writer), a spreadsheet (Calc), a presentation application (Impress), a drawing application (Draw), a formula editor (Math), and a database management application (Base).[6]

Apache OpenOffice’s default file format is the OpenDocument Format (ODF), an ISO/IEC standard, which originated with OpenOffice.org. It can also read a wide variety of other file formats, with particular attention to those from Microsoft Office.

Apache OpenOffice is developed for Linux, OS X and Windows, with ports to other operating systems. It is distributed under the Apache License.[4] The first release was version 3.4.0, on 8 May 2012.[1]

As you would imagine, such a project has many parts to it, and we will explore some over time, but, as always …

• Feel free to explore yourself
• Visit search engines with more specific queries about specific topics, always add “OpenOffice” in there somewhere, and arrive at specialized forums and/or blogs and/or official sites
• Make sure you reset your body’s clocks … yes, clocks … to meet the day with the proper start involving getting out in the day and seeing the sunshine … if you are not in the dark in winter, that is … see here
• Think of this tutorial as a way to learn a lot about Microsoft Powerpoint, as well.

Today, we use a Microsoft Powerpoint file from the PowerPoint Web Slide Show Tutorial and manipulate the slides using OpenOffice Presentation functionality, and then we will export the slideshow to PDF and display on a local MAMP webserver (we are on a Mac laptop … we have shrunk to a Prochlorococcus that you get seventeen hundred Prochlorococcus steps from the top left of the keyboard’s “X” key (why so much there?) … hello diplodoccus). Who could call this website lame lame lame?!!

Link to input Microsoft Powerpoint input data file Spectro.ppt
Link to output PDF data file Spectro.pdf

Link to OpenOffice information … from Wikipedia as used by quote above.
Link to OpenOffice “spiritual home” … via Apache Software Foundation.

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