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Subject: Re: [office] Re: [office-accessibility] Re: [office] Fw:[office-accessibility] Inclusion of tables
On Feb 24, 2006, at 7:21 AM, Richard Schwerdtfeger wrote: > > Tables should behave as if they were part of the slide. Bruce D'Arcus replied: > Yes! > > Re: the Keynote question earlier, no, it doesn't use ODF, but I was > responding to the notion that tables are not a standard feature of > presentation applications generally. Let me confirm that. Two days ago I was editing a set of slides where one of the MOST IMPORTANT slides in the presentation was a traditional table (a 3-column table, with a heading row and rows of data underneath it). Tables are valuable in presentations for the same reason that they are valuable in documents -- for some information, a table is the clearest way to present it. Tables are great when you have structured data. In OpenOffice.org 2, it's easy to get a table embedded in a presentation. Just go to the "layouts" list, and click on the "spreadsheet" icon to make the main body of the slide a spreadsheet (which then becomes an embedded object). Then you can edit away. By default the borders don't show, but that is trivially fixed (format->cells->borders). If there's a better method to support tables in presentations, PARTICULARLY if there's a better way to improve accessibility, then that's great--sounds like a worthy thing to discuss. And if this is an OpenOffice.org 2-unique extension, it sounds like something that needs standardizing (I suspect it's NOT unique... I suspect it's just using ordinary embedding). But I _do_ want to remove any misunderstandings: 1. Yes, it IS important to support tables inside presentations. 2. Yes, there's at least one ODF-compliant application that DOES support tables inside presentations (OpenOffice.org 2); maybe people want a "better" approach, but you CAN do it today. --- David A. Wheeler
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