For this reason I always have a usb stick with LibreOffice as portable app.
This can fe found on https://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable I've done this for years now, since Powerpoint different versions played tricks on me displaying black characters on black background. Rob Jasper On 9 jun. 2017, at 03:50, Keith Bates wrote: > Earlier this week, I produced a presentation with embedded video for use in a > school classroom (NSW Department of Education, in case anyone has personal > knowledge of their set-up). I am using Libre Office 5.3 and Ubuntu 17.04. > > > I checked that the presentation worked, including the video. I saved it in > .ppt format onto a USB stick with the video file, "just in case". This turned > out to be a good thing. > > > The classroom has an old version of MS Office (2010, I think I saw), a > projector and a smart board. I don't know what version of Windows they are > running. > > > When I ran the presentation, everything went as expected. Touching the white > board progressed the slides as expected. However I couldn't get the video to > work from within the presentation, and had to run it from the media player. > > > It's not a big problem, and I can work around it, but when you have a > classroom of Year 4 and 5 kids, you don't want to get too distracted by the > technology. > > > Any ideas about how to make it work? Keep in mind that I have no access to > their computer outside of my lesson time. > > > Thanks. > > > -- > God bless you > Keith Bates > Narrabri NSW > > Jesus is the Way > the Truth and the Life > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
