It just provides the possibility to send your presentation to one specific monitor or span the presentation on all available monitors – completely useless for me. That’s just basic multimonitor support and has NOTHING to do with the real dualhead presentation mode you might know from tools like MS Powerpoint ( multimonitor support – known as ' Referentenansicht' in german locales) or Apple’s Keynote. Also, comment if you are facing trouble following the above instructions.Update on : check out – the presenter-screen extension is available for current OpenOffice 3.0 beta version now (thanks for pointer to Stefan Weigel)īesides some other issues (not being relevant for the topic I’m blogging about) OpenOffice Impress ('the Powerpoint of the free Office suite') has one major drawback: lack of reasonable dualhead support.Īt the end of year 2006 Philipp Lohmann blogged about OpenOffice’s ' Multimonitor support for the slideshow'. Let us know if this article helped you for the benefit of other users. Now you can change, modify and save as per your need for further processing.You should see the pps/ppsx file opened in LibreOffice/OpenOffice Impress presentation editor.

From the menu, select Edit Presentation.On the presentation mode, which should be in full screen, right-click to bring up the context menu.Select Open with LibreOffice/OpenOffice Impress.Select the pps or ppsx file and right-click to bring up the context menu.

How to Edit PPS, PPSX File in LibreOffice, OpenOffice Impress There’s still hope, and here’s how you can edit a pps, ppsx file in LibreOffice, or OpenOffice Impress. PowerPoint Show Fileīut sometimes, you may not have the original ppt or pptx version of the file with you, and you ended up with a ‘Show’ version of the file. This is quite obvious due to the fact that you are trying to open the “Show” version of the file in the first place. This is because it opens up as a full-screen presentation when you open the file, eliminating the editor itself. However, if you need to edit pps, ppsx files via LibreOffice or OpenOffice Impress, it would be a bit tricky. The pps / ppsx files are a great way of distributing presentation files for various needs. The pps or ppsx files are PowerPoint presentation show files, a standalone file that opens up directly in presentation mode (full screen). This is how you can edit pps or ppsx files using LibreOffice, and OpenOffice Impress.

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