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3.4 Using Presentations with Impress
Use OpenOffice.org Impress to create presentations for screen
display or printing, such as slide shows or transparencies. If you
have used other presentation software, you can move comfortably
to Impress, which works very similarly to other presentation software.
Impress can open and save Microsoft Powerpoint presentations,
which means you can exchange presentations with Powerpoint users,
as long as you save your presentations in Powerpoint format.
3.4.1 Creating a Presentation
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Click > > .
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Select the option to use for creating
the presentation.
There are two ways to create a presentation:
- Create an empty presentation
Opens Impress with a blank slide. Use this option to create
a new presentation from scratch, without any preformatted slides.
- Create a presentation from a template
Opens Impress with your choice of template. Use this option
to create a new presentation with a predesigned OpenOffice.org template
or a template you’ve created or installed yourself, such
as your company’s presentation template. Impress uses styles
and templates the same way other OpenOffice.org modules do. See Section 3.2.4, Using Templates to Format Documents for more
information about templates.
3.4.2 Using Master Pages
Master pages give your presentation a consistent look by defining
the way each slide looks, what fonts are used, and other graphical
elements. Impress uses two types of master pages:
- Slide master
Contains elements that appear on all slides. For example,
you might want your company logo to appear in the same place on
every slide. The slide master also determines the text formatting style
for the heading and outline of every slide that uses that master
page, as well as any information you want to appear in a header
or footer.
- Notes master
Determines the formatting and appearance of the notes in your
presentation.
Creating a Slide Master
Impress comes with a collection of preformatted master pages.
Eventually, most users will want to customize their presentations
by creating their own slide masters.
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Start Impress,
then create a new empty presentation.
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Click > > .
This opens the current slide master in Master View.
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Right-click the left-hand panel, then
click .
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Edit the slide master until it has the
desired look.
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Click or > to
return to Normal View.
HINT:When you have created all of the slide masters you want to
use in your presentations, you can save them in an Impress template.
Then, any time you want to create presentations that use those slide
masters, open a new presentation with your template.
Applying a Slide Master
Slide masters can be applied to selected slides or to all
slides in the presentation.
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Open your presentation,
then click > > .
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(Optional) If you want to apply the slide
master to multiple slides, but not to all slides, select the slides
that you want to use that slide master.
To select multiple slides, in the Slides Pane, Control-click
on the slides you want to use that slide master.
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In the Task Pane, right-click the master
page you want to apply.
If you do not see the Task Pane, click > .
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Apply the slide master by clicking one
of the following:.
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Applies the selected slide master to all slides in the presentation.
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Applies the selected slide master to the current slide, or
to any slides you select before applying the slide master. For example,
if you want to apply a different slide master to the first slide
in a presentation, select that slide, then change to Master View
and apply a slide master to that slide.
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