Thanks to pointers by Stefan Weigel and Rene Engelhard I could figure out the current and upcoming support of dualhead presentation mode in OO. You can find several bugreports/wishlists in the regarding the dualhead feature as well.

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. If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft Office, Apache OpenOffice is a good choice.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'. SummaryĪpache OpenOffice is a solid office suite that offers similar functionality to Microsoft Office and is compatible with many industry-standard file formats. PDF format for sharing documents across platforms. You can also export OpenOffice files in the.

You can open and save files in the OpenOffice proprietary file format or as Microsoft Office file formats, such as. OpenOffice is used to create documents that assist in office productivity and organization, which include presentations, spreadsheets, drawings, diagrams, equations, and text documents. Base - A database management application.Impress - A presentation creator similar to Microsoft PowerPoint.Calc - A spreadsheet application similar to Microsoft Excel.Writer - A word processor similar to Microsoft Word.Programs included in the Open Office suite: It offers several office productivity programs that resemble Microsoft Office programs.

The program descended from and is closely related to LibreOffice. Apache OpenOffice is an open-source office suite similar to Microsoft Office.

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