I have many existing files created in PowerPoint which make use of right tabs to show a right-aligned Scripture reference.
In OO these files exhibit a cluster of problematic results. The following behaviours are noted, and illustrated in the attached example which is an unmodified PPTX created in PowerPoint:
- The right tab is interpreted as being approximately 0.2 inches outside of the right margin of the text box, whereas in PowerPoint it was aligned with the right edge (see various examples starting with Slide 6)
- This overflowing text is cut off when in presentation mode
- When a right tab would push the entire reference off screen (there is not enough room for it at the end of a line, PowerPoint would wrap to the next line instead and the reference would be appropriately right-aligned on that next line. OO does not do this and so the reference flows off further to the right (see various examples starting with Slide 12)
Attempting to solve this issue on existing files also reveals some kind of incorrect/inconsistent behaviour:
- My expected solution for incorrect alignment of the right tab would be to edit the slide master for the corresponding layout, and set the paragraph tab back to a value which would not cause the text to align to a point outside the frame. However, doing this does not update the tab values for paragraphs in slides based on that master layout
- Further to above, the edited tab setting does not stick in the master page. When I save, close, and reopen the document, the previous tab value is still present
As you can see, there are a cluster of issues, some of which are probably not related to each other, but all affecting my workflow.
My only solution has been to manually edit the tab setting on every paragraph in every affected slide. This is obviously not a good solution when I have many hundreds of slides coming over from PowerPoint.
I’m running Desktop Editors version 8.3.3.21, flatpak build, on Fedora 42 with KDE 6.3.
Example file:
Behold the Lamb of God.pptx (4.1 MB)