Stepping through bulleted items in Presentation

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#1

I have rarely used Presentation, but I'm starting to use it more.

When I want to step through several bulleted items in a slide, I
typically create the first slide with one bullet, and then create a
duplicate slide and add the new bulleted item to the previous one. I
create as many duplicate slides as I have bullets.

I'm wondering if there is another way to do this without the need to
create several slides. If I have 6 bullets, that means creating six
slides to get the stepping effect through the bullets.

What I'd like to do is create one slide with all six bullets, and then
tell LO to step through them during my presentation. Is there a way to
do this?

Virgil

#2

Have made several Presentations, mostly intended for remote
viewing and so including sychronised voice-overs.

Never found the bullet stepping technique that you wish for, but have
saved time and effort by first making the full slide, with all lines
finished, then copy it the number of times required and finally
step through the set and delete the unwanted lines. Have found
that this avoids some repetition, the layout and any fiddling with
spacing etc., is done only once.

The stepped bulleting may be possible in Lyx Beamer, but do not
have it on this machine, so cannot be sure.

Gordon.

#3

I have rarely used Presentation, but I'm starting to use it more.

When I want to step through several bulleted items in a slide, I
typically create the first slide with one bullet, and then create a
duplicate slide and add the new bulleted item to the previous one. I
create as many duplicate slides as I have bullets.

I'm wondering if there is another way to do this without the need to
create several slides. If I have 6 bullets, that means creating six
slides to get the stepping effect through the bullets.

What I'd like to do is create one slide with all six bullets, and then

tell LO to step through them during my presentation. Is there a way

to do this?

Selecting Custom Animation > Plus button > Entrance > Appear for each
bullet ought to do the trick.

When you present, move the mouse cursor to the start of a line and click
the mouse once to reveal the line.

#4

I have rarely used Presentation, but I'm starting to use it more.

That's probably "presentations" or "Impress".

When I want to step through several bulleted items in a slide, I typically create the first slide with one bullet, and then create a duplicate slide and add the new bulleted item to the previous one. I create as many duplicate slides as I have bullets. I'm wondering if there is another way to do this without the need to create several slides. If I have 6 bullets, that means creating six slides to get the stepping effect through the bullets.

Indeed. And you end up - undesirably - with six slides instead of one in both your notes and your handout.

What I'd like to do is create one slide with all six bullets, and then tell LO to step through them during my presentation. Is there a way to do this?

Surely yes.

o Create your bulleted list of six items.
o Click Custom Animation in the sidebar.
o Let's assume that you want the first item to appear with the main part of the slide. Select the second item.
o Click Add... .
o Select the mode of entrance.
o Ensure that under Effect, Start is set as "On click".
o Adjust other options as desired.
o Repeat for the other four items, ensuring that they appear in the appropriate order in the Custom Animation panel.

In the slide show, one click will now bring up the new slide with its first bulleted item, the next five clicks will add additional items, and the next click will proceed to the next slide - as you would expect.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker

#5

Thank you Brian. That was it.

Gordon, I have used LyX and LaTeX and it is deceptively easy in those systems. The command for stepping is included in various Beamer templates.

My problem is I have a hard drive full of documents in various formats because I keep switching between LO and LyX and LaTeX, etc. I want to settle in on one system rather than bounce from one to the other.

Virgil

#6

Gordon,

Just curious. How do you do the voice overs?

Virgil

#7

I notice, however, that if I use Brian's method and save the LO presentation as a PDF, the stepping effect isn't preserved. I can preserve it through the method of creating duplicate slides and adding new bullets to each slide.

Virgil

#8

Virgil,
            I will possibly be classed as an heretic and ready to be broken on the wheel for
writing this on an LO user list, but IHMO there are much better ways of assembling a
slide presentation than using Libre Office.

These days, I use one of the video editors, e.g. OpenShot, to make a synchronised slide
program. The audio is recorded as a continuous sound track, then the images are dropped
in over the sound, Perhaps it is a voice-under?

However, to answer your query, here is how I worked with LO, and it is streets ahead of our methods
used 40 years ago, where the audio editor was a razor blade plus a roll of quarter inch adhesive
tape. Then, the images were 35mm slides, text slides were drawn, then photographed, and we
prayed that the processing laboratory would not change fluids while developing our film, thus
introducing colour shifts. On one job they did lose 2 36 shot-films from a 30+ batch, ruining a
week's work for 2 of our team who were making a training tape/slide program about measuring
water quality in remote lakes and rivers!

Libre Office. The basic system allows the recording of sound for each slide, so I did this.

1. Sketch out a story and the sequence of images. Note that the images need to be ready in
    advance and that those with text or stepped bullets should be made and saved as separate files.

2. Draft a series of descriptions for each image. Record these as audio, with a good space
     between each one.

3. Edit the audio track - I used Audacity here - remove any pauses and/or hesitations and finish with
     a well spaced track. This is then recorded as a sequence of separate audio files, one for each
     slide. While doing this, note the time/length of audio for each slide. Audio should be recorded
     in .wav format. Best to leave a short silent period at the the beginning of each file so that viewers
     may look at a slide for a few seconds before the audio sarts

4. Now put the sequence together, assemble the slides with display times longer than the timed
     audio sequences. Then embed the relevant audio file for each slide. Probably the start and
     finish visual slides will not have audio.

5. Finally, run the whole program and perhaps adjust the transition times for each slide. I usually
      made the times a bit longer than needed, then pruned them at the end.

Awfully slow and only worth the effort, if the result is to be of benefit to many.

Gordon.

#9

Thanks for all the detail. And I agree that, for specific tasks, there are better tools than LO. If I were typing a college report, I would probably prefer LaTeX. For a quick presentation, I have used Beamer and the results are stunning.

My problem is that if I ever need to deviate from LaTeX's default formats, I run into a brick wall. Like most office suites, LO is a "jack of all trades". No matter what I need to do, I can find a way to do it with LO even if it's not necessarily the " best" way.

Virgil