Hi all,
Is there a way to tell Impress to make slides from cells in a Calc spreadsheet, so that each cell is turned into a separate slide? I need to make a lot of presentations with a single word or phrase on each slide. It would be great to be able to just type them into Calc and then export them into impress. But I can’t find a way to do that. Possible?
Cheers,
Lori
Do not use Calc but Writer. Write each word or phrase in a single line. Mark all and format them as “Heading 1”. Then go to menu File > item Send > item Outline to Presentation. You get a presentation with the word or phrase a title. AutoAbstract to Presentation works similar, but is able to copy paragraphs in addition to the headings. You can then edit the master slide to center the title, and then select all slides and assign a layout “Title only” or whatever you want to do with the slides.
Thanks, Regina! I hadn’t even thought of using Writer. I will give that a try.
Hi
Why use Calc, Writer or anything else ? You can type directly your words (sentences) and create a new slide by pressing Enter. This is how the Outline view works: View▸Outline
Regards
Well, since you asked…the whole point was to avoid having to type individual slides. If I need, say, 100 slides, each with a number in the millions, it is way faster to use the random number function in Calc to automagically generate, 100 numbers ranging from 1,000,000 to 999,000,000 . Typing each one into a slide is pretty tedious, thus my question.
The tip of pierre-yves-samyn works indeed very well. You can generate the content as one column in Calc and copy&paste it to the outline view in Impress.