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Wednesday 22nd February 2012 – GRRRRR!

This presentation is getting on my wick.

Having been at it all day yesterday and all day today, I am much nearer my goal but it hasn’t half been a struggle.

The issue is that PowerPoint seems to grind out at 1mb of space and everything after that is lost. That means that only 37 of the slides are being displayed, instead of the … gulp … 123

The answer is of course simple. To prepare four different presentations of about 30 slides each and that should keep it under the limit.

Simple, you might think, except that OpenOffice doesn’t seem to offer the possibility to delete multiple selections of slides. It seems to be just one at a time, and it has ben taking me forever to do that.

There must be a solution because my whole theory about computer programs is that I’m not the only one surely who wants that facility, so it must be there somewhere. It’s not the kind of simple software function that a software designer would have missed.

But I’m blowed if I can find it.

So it’s been the laborious one-by-one procedure.

All day.

And I’m fed up

Totally

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Tuesday 21st February 2012 – IT’S GETTING CLOSE …

… to my presentation time.

For those of you not clued up to what is happening, a few months ago I was at a meeting of the village committee here in Virlet where they were discussing the programm for this year.

Once a month, they have an “event” when everyone is invited, and they ask someone to animate it. When they were deciding on the events, they had most of the meetings covered, but one date stuck out like a sore thumb – 24th February.

Regular readers of this rubbish will recall that 24th February is a date of special significance for me, and so it seemed like an opportunity. As you know, I’m all very much in favour of integration and participating in community events. I should be feeding something back into the community of which I am part.

As a result I offered to animate the meeting on that date, and I’m doing a presentation of my 2010 trip around the Trans-Labrador Highway

Much of it was pretty straightforward but I seem to have run aground somewha.

for some reason that I haven’t quite grasped, a presentation done in OpenOffice and exported as a Powerpoint presentation only displays the first 37 slides (which coincidentally runs to about 1mb) instead of the entire load of … gulp … 123 slides.

I’ve not yet found a workaround for it either.

And this is where I am at the moment

And I only have until Friday to do it too.

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