Using Presentations With Impress; Creating A Presentation; Using Master - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - GNOME 23-05-2007 Manual

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

1 Click File > New > Presentation.
2 Select the option to use for creating the presentation.
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:
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.
1 Start Impress, then create a new empty presentation.
2 Click View > Master > Slide Master.
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Section 3.4.1, "Creating a Presentation," on page 120
Section 3.4.2, "Using Master Pages," on page 120
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
Format Documents," on page 116
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.
This opens the current slide master in Master View.
Section 3.2.4, "Using Templates to
for more information about templates.