XPost: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy   
   From: recscuba_google@huntzinger.com   
      
   On 1/29/26 07:12, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:   
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote this post by blinking in Morse code:   
   >   
   >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:39:29 -0500, -hh wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>    
   >>   
   >> OK, I tried it. Looks all right to me. LibreOfficeImpress 25.8.4.2.   
   >   
   > On mine (same version but build 2), the background was dark.   
   > That's probably a setting I made. I *hate* white backgrounds   
   > ("argh it burns!").   
      
   I've been trying to remember if it originally was a black background or   
   white ... I recall that pre-digital era was black background, but that   
   did invert - - I just don't recall when.   
      
      
   > But the text bled out of the cells.   
      
   If you're referring to the matrix on slide 5, agreed, that formatting   
   got messed up.  Not too hard to fix though.   
      
      
   > Even "file" can't deal with it:   
   >   
   > $ file ADPA-snipertrainer.ppt   
   > ADPA-snipertrainer.ppt: data   
   >   
   > Heh, I see that the file starts with the magic bytes "0b ad de ed"   
   > ("bad deed") :-D   
   >   
   >         
   >   
   > -hh should read it in and export it as PPTX.   
      
      
   I'll have to read up on this "no bad deed" bit.   
      
   But the main thing is "...son-of-a-gun it worked!"  And I finally have a   
   concrete example of a use case where FOSS actually did do materially   
   better at MS-Office than MS themselves have.   
      
      
   -hh   
      
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