https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78156
--- Comment #14 from bick-qlb <[email protected]> --- For clarification I would like to compare Impress to PowerPoint: How PowerPoint works: Each presentation is based on a master and 11 slide layouts. The slide master defines the formatting and positioning of common elements—title placeholders, content placeholders, and footers—on the corresponding slide layouts. Changes to the slide master are reflected in the associated slide layouts. Slide layouts define the position and formatting of text and objects displayed on a slide. You can create new layouts, modify and rename them, and change the order in which they are displayed. So you can create a new PowerPoint-template .potx with as many preformatted and individually formatted slide layouts as you wish. Impress has some of the structure and names, but not the functionality: The master slide (View > Master Slide) contains five elements/placeholders: title area with title text, object area with outline text, date area for date/time, footer area for footer text, slide number area for slide number. In Master > Master Elements, the placeholders Date/Time, Footer, and Slide Number can be turned on or off (the header placeholder is grayed out). "Format Slide" gives you access to format, margins, background, and transparency. Areas cannot be duplicated, copied, or reinserted from a menu. If individual areas of the master slide are changed (size, position, font), this affects all slides whose layout contains this area of the master slide. For example, if the title area on the master slide is moved to the center, it will be in the center of every slide layout that uses a title area. However, no layouts can be added to the existing 12 layouts: For example, there is a single-column and a two-column layout ("Title, Content" and "Title and 2 Contents"). It is not possible to add a third text area and thus create a new "Title and 3 Contents" layout. LibreOffice offers so many customization options, so why are the layouts limited to exactly these twelve without any customization options? How this could be a compatibility-issue with PowerPoint is for others to decide. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
