[UFO Chicago] Power Corrupts, PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely

[Brian Sobolak]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 3:20 pm, Jay F. Shachter wrote:
>
> Fellow Nerds,
>
> I have to write a 2-day on-line R Programming class using PowerPoint.
> Since we are users of free operating systems, we do not have
> PowerPoint, which is the reason why I had to spend 2 weeks building
> LibreOffice (the subject of my previous posting), now you know why I
> needed it.  So, I now have a functioning LibreOffice.  My customer has
> also sent me their PowerPoint "templates".  I think this means that my
> slides (why do they still call them "slides"?  Is there anyone younger
> than I who even knows what that means?) have to look like theirs.
> These "templates", despite the plural noun, were conveyed to me in the
> form of a single .ppt file.  I have no idea how to use LibreOffice to
> create PowerPoint slides.  Is the entire course a single .ppt file?
> Is every slide a separate .ppt file?  If so, why were the "templates"
> a single .ppt file?  And, most important, how do I use LibreOffice and
> my client's templates to create this on-line course?  Please assume
> that I know nothing, absolutely nothing, about PowerPoint, because I
> am a user of free operating systems and I know nothing, absolutely
> nothing, about PowerPoint.  Thank you in advance for any and all
> replies.

Powerpoint documents typically embed styles inside the document.  It is
done in the "master slide", which contains things such as default colors
for fonts, heading size for titles, etc.

It *usually* works that if you edit a document that was created with
these, the styles take over by default.  The purpose is to make sure that
your slides use the appropriate corporate color palate, etc.

I am younger than you and know very well what slides are.  :)

brian


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