OpenOffice Impress newbie question

October 24, 2008 3:40 AM

OpenOffice Impress (PowerPoint alternative) - an emergency time-sensitive basic NEWB question...

I cannot figure out how to do this!

I have a bullet list, or maybe a few lines of regular text, on a slide.

I want to be able to click or spacebar during the presentation, so that these items appear one by one, sequentially, as I am giving my talk...

This must be possible? But I am trying to work this for the first time, the presentation is tomorrow, have no idea how to search for help on this topic... PLEASING VERY MUCH YOU TO HELP ME!!!1

If you have any other power user tips for this software, big bonus!

posted by Meatbomb to computers & internet (2 comments total)

The search term you are looking for is custom animations in Openoffice impress. It works pretty much exactly like Microsoft PowerPoint.
posted by Happy Dave at 3:52 AM on October 24, 2008

You are specifically looking for the Text Animation settings under the Custom Animations task pane. Add an entrance animation to the whole text box. Then click the little "..." button next to the Property drop down. In the Text Animation tab, you want to group text by "1st level paragraphs."
posted by Rock Steady at 4:53 AM on October 24, 2008