Help with Open Office Impress?

January 11, 2009 7:52 AM

Using Open Office Impress...need a little help with making a navigation bar. I have all the slides ready, just can't figure out how to add a visible nav bar with the usual buttons or arrows ie: First, Previous, Next, and Last. I can make it so that when anyone clicks, the next slide appears, but I would like to dress it up a bit if possible. BONUS : Understand that I've never used this, or PP before...and I'm kinda dumb.
posted by lobstah to computers & internet (4 comments total)

The visible nav bar is part of PowerPoint, not the slide show itself. I'm not sure that Impress offers the same feature.
posted by sonic meat machine at 8:06 AM on January 11 [1 favorite]

That might explain why I can't find it...so, if the user has PP, then the nav bar will show by default, if I save it as a PP file?
posted by lobstah at 8:16 AM on January 11

I don't know the answer, but if you're looking for something to try, do this:

1. Save the file as a PP file.
2. Download the Powerpoint Viewer and install it.
3. Run the show and see what you get.
posted by tcv at 9:37 AM on January 11 [1 favorite]

A followup :
After a couple of hours of playing around with the program, I discovered that if text or an image is selected , you will notice an icon (Interaction) on the Drawing Bar becomes active. You can use this tool to navigate, link to the web, or a number of other options. Thanks for your help.
posted by lobstah at 4:52 PM on February 10