Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

I'm confused as to the flow of the discussion, and I'm not at all sure I 
know what the issue is, but I have no problem inserting an entire 
Impress presentation into another Impress presentation.

Here's how I do it with LO 5.1.6 on my Linux Mint machine:

First, I open one Impress presentation file. I then make sure that the 
"Slide Panel" is visible by clicking on the menu "View", "Slide Panel"

I then click on the slide in the Slide Panel where I want to insert 
another Impress presentation, keeping in mind that the inserted 
presentation will appear *after* the slide I click on in the Slide 
Panel. From my experience, inserting a second presentation only works if 
my cursor focus is in the Slide Panel.

Then, on the menu, I click "Insert", "File...", which on my machine is 
down toward the bottom of the Insert menu list. From the resulting 
dialog box, I select the Impress presentation I want to insert and then 
I am presented with another dialog box from which I can select certain 
slides from the inserting file. If I want the entire presentation, I 
simply click on "Ok," and the file is inserted into the original 
presentation file after the slide I had selected in my Slide Panel.

Virgil


On 04/04/2018 03:13 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 18:48 03/04/2018 -0500, Anne Noname wrote:
> > Thank you for responding, ...
>
> No probs!
>
> > ... but I'm still confused, still inserted below my continued reply,
> > > From: Brian Barker
> > > Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 4:30 PM
> > > At 14:46 31/03/2018 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > ... am re-sending because I really would appreciate an answer; nary 
> > > > a soul has responded yet.
> > >
> > > I'm frankly not surprised.
> >
> > [I don't understand]
>
> I meant simply that, as I explained later, your question was 
> insufficiently clear to encourage or even allow people to offer any help.
>
> > > > back then, & on the MsFt-compatible computer, I was able to make 
> > > > PPs, ...
> > >
> > > Er, what's a "PP", please? If you get no replies, wouldn't it be 
> > > sensible to wonder if people did not understand your request? Do you 
> > > perhaps mean a presentation (Impress) document? Or something else?
> >
> > [sorry, I thought everyone used 'PP' for Power Point presentation or 
> > Impress]
>
> In fact not: it's only you. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PP . In 
> any case, it is unhelpful to anyone trying to help you to confuse the 
> name of a quite different application (Powerpoint) with a document 
> that may have been created using LibreOffice (Impress). No-one can 
> know whether you mean that your problem is related to presentation 
> documents in general or a particular problem with one created in 
> Microsoft Powerpoint itself.
>
> > > >  ... saving each version then I would place each of these together 
> > > > to save only the best parts.
> > >
> > > Why would you create any parts that were not "best"?!
> >
> > [for the same reason, when writing anything; first, I get the idea 
> > down as quickly as possible, then I add flourish to it, then after a 
> > few days, I return to the piece to edit]
>
> Oh, indeed so!
>
> > > Do you mean that you could edit slides from different presentations 
> > > into a single presentation? Surely you can simply copy slides from 
> > > the Slides panel in one document and paste them into the Slides 
> > > panel of the other document? Doesn't that still work for you?
> >
> > [yes, it allowed me to insert each PP into one; in fact, that's one 
> > of the main reasons I preferred LO to any of these others.
>
> I still think it is unhelpful to talk of installing an entire 
> presentation document (your definition of "PP") into another. So I 
> think you do mean combining slides from one presentation document into 
> another. And you are far away from the truth if you think this is 
> (was?) possible only in LibreOffice: it is certainly possible in 
> Apache OpenOffice and presumably also in Microsoft Powerpoint. It 
> would be a poor presentation program that did not allow this. And you 
> don't have to copy them piecemeal: you can select, copy, and paste 
> multiple slides - perhaps all the slides in a document.
>
> > ok, How can I see the slide panel of the other PP when only the one 
> > PP is open?; are you saying, it's possible to somehow open LO more 
> > than once?
>
> Generally no, but you don't need to: you need just to have two 
> documents open at once. You have two windows open in the same instance 
> of LibreOffice. That is certainly possible, and is part of the purpose 
> of windowing operating systems - as all modern systems are.
>
> > wow, I can't image what this screen would even look like if I had 1/2 
> > dozen LOs open at one time.]
>
> For the present problem, you need one instance of LibreOffice and two 
> separate document windows - not half a dozen of anything. Don't you do 
> this sort of thing all the time? I currently happen to have open my 
> browser, my office suite, a plain text editor, the Windows Settings 
> panel, and my mail client. The limitation of one program (and perhaps 
> one document) surely went out with DOS?
>
> > > > But this feature seems to be lacking now ...
> > >
> > > If you explained how you did it before, someone may be able to 
> > > comment on whether your method is still available.
> >
> > [hopefully - thank you.]
>
> Er, but you haven't responded to this point: you *still* haven't said 
> exactly what you did before that you believe is no longer available. 
> Which menu? What menu item? What process?
>
> > > > Yes, I can see how to insert images, ... but not how to insert PPs.
> > >
> > > Hold on: if a "PP" is a presentation document, you cannot insert an 
> > > entire document into something else. Indeed, what other sort of 
> > > document would you be trying to insert it into? So a "PP" cannot be 
> > > a presentation and no-one will know what you are talking about.
> >
> > [ah, but it was quite possible in the LO 3:]
>
> As I keep saying, I think it is unhelpful to think of inserting one 
> document into another. What I am still guessing you mean is inserting 
> some or all of the slides from one presentation document into another. 
> Whatever was possible before, surely you can open both documents at 
> the same time (one instance of LibreOffice; two separate document 
> windows) and copy and paste slides from one document to the other? 
> (Yes, you can!)
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker


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