Hi all, So I did what Liviu said and did File->new from template and chose the only English Beamer, which was called "fancy beamer" or something like that.
For this little presentation I didn't need 3/4 of the features like table of contents, hierarchical outline, and the supremely ugly header and footer above and below the white of the presentation. So I need to expand the white to cover the full screen, but somehow need to put a footer on every page for my copyright notice. I guess I'll be making a layout file called "mybeamer". The funniest thing was placing a graphic on a page. When I make Powerpoint presentations I like to put the graphic at the side of the bullet points, somewhere where the bullet points are short. I couldn't figure a way to do that in Beamer (makes sense, what I describe is fingerpainting), so instead I put the graphic at the bottom and then preceded it with the following ERT: ~\\[-0.7in]\hfill Crude, but effective. ROFLMAO! In the long run I don't know if I'll be doing these slides in Beamer, another LyX based slide environment, or just do it in Scribus, which of course is made for fingerpainting. But Beamer isn't bad for 15 minutes without reading documentation :-) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
