[plug] An OO question

W.Kenworthy billk at iinet.net.au
Fri Jul 15 16:33:23 WST 2005


I created a single slide with the lines, then just copied it to every
second slide position.  Only took a few minutes (~89 slides), but next
time I'll macro it.  Not as neat as, or as low an overhead solution as
PPT uses, but its works.

BillK


On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 16:02 +0800, J Michael Gilks wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:15 pm, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> > I am trying to generate some presentation handouts using openoffice in a
> > format similar to the way powerpoint can do: I want 3 slides per page,
> > with a lined area alongside each content slide for people to write
> > notes.
> >
> > So far the only way I can make it work is to insert a slide with the
> > lines on it after every content slide - very clumsy.  Does anyone know
> > of an alternative?
> >
> If you go to the menu
> View->Workspace->Handout View
> you can then use the stylist to modify layout.
> Choose the 3 slides per page layout.
> Now for the manual stuff.
> Drag and drop the slides to fit down one side of the page, still no lines for 
> notes, but a blank area is available.
> Looking now for an easy way to insert a text area with lines, to finish it 
> off, however this should be a good start and perhaps people smarter than me 
> will have an answer to the lines bit.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Love
> Mike.
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