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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:
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Create an empty presentation
Opens Impress with a blank slide. Use this option to
create a new presentation from scratch, without any
preformatted slides.
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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:
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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.
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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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