OpenOffice is a great application, but there's a lack of important and usefull tools in the default installation. Include some extensions by default, could improve the use of the office suite for new users.

OpenOffice can't embed audio/video since it would make the ".odp" too heavy.

Apple's PowerPoint Presentation application, Keynote, is amazing & even better than PowerPoint, in some ways, notably, the slide transition effects & animations.

Most people do NOT know that PowerPoint supposedly was originally created for Macs, not PCs. The original company got bought out by guess who? Microsoft, of course.

Apple has since then created their own "PowerPoint" application called Keynote. Its a part of the iWork 08 application suite. I

Just watch any keynote presentation (on Apple.com or YouTube) given by Steve Jobs, i.e. the recent 3G iphone keynote announcement & introduction.

All linux users, not just Ubuntu users, need to have a PowerPoint or Keynote-like application that is equally professional & awesome in slide transitions & animations equal to the Desktop Effects found in Compiz-Fusion. Maybe it should be some how incorporated in w/the Compiz-Fusion Technology.

OpenOffice.Org 3.0's application, Impress or Presentation, will definitely be an improvement over the current version. However, it looks like it will not have the ability to perform the same very slick & amazing slide transitions & animations especially those available in Apple's Keynote. There is still room for improvement.

When making a public presentation with OpenOffice.org Impress or even a PDF or Writer document, often times a system or email or calendar notification pops up to helpfully remind me of something. These can reveal more information than a user would often like (i.e. Doctor's appt, email subject lines, etc.) or just be annoying (update manger).

There should be a way to easily shift the computer to Presentation mode so that even programs in the background don't offer notifications. Not sure if this makes more sense at the system level or application level; i.e when a user starts a presentation in Impress, the app notifies the system to stop these. Or if it needs to be at the system level for all notifications to be suppressed but only in presentation mode?

In OpenOffice.org, I slides from my professors, and it's just terrible the outcome. Most of it is due to poor font replacement. It would be nice if there was a service that chose a font when the defined one isn't there.

OO text editor is just wonderful (program is using CPU and memory about 48%), but when I have to make presentations, my CPU and memory are loaded up to 98%! For me it is very big problem. Because when I need to write my report, I have to wait till program (load up) all changes in text.

"This is an idea of a new extension, add-in or built-in feature to be added to software applications like OpenOffice.org Impress, Microsoft Powerpoint or Apple Keynote.

The purpose is to allow the presenter to change the course of the presentation during the presentation itself, in such a way that it does not interrupt the presentation and it is done without the audience knowledge. This of course, requires the use of "presenter tools"/"presenter view mode"."

link: http://nunito.wordpress.com/proposal-changing-a-presentation-course-on-the-go/

I think a good number of people have switched to Mac because they see others doing creative presentations on Keynote. I think if there was something like Prezi that works natively in Ubuntu, people would be curious to try it and switch. And in general, it would be great to have FLOSS version of Prezi.

It is important for students and professionals to be able to display an idea or concept with the best presentation possible.

Compiz desktop effects should be integrated to OpenOffice Impress so that people would be able to make the most astonishing presentations imaginable.

When you have a document (a presentation for instance) and you have to show information from another you have several possibilities:

- Copy and paste the information to the proper place in your document
- Embedded the destination document
- Link the destination document

The 3rd means that you have to manage carefully two documents to ensure the links always work, for instance if you send by email, move to a network place...

If there are different pieces of info in the destination document you need then only the first option is valid. Well, the other two also, but with big size if you attach several times the document or more complexity working wirh links to a different part of the destination document.

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