2008/9/22 mike scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An oddity here, causing problems. > > I've made a slide show with maybe a dozen slides so far. I set a > common background picture (from a png file) by R-clicking on a slide, > picking 'slide | set background picture, and then saying yes on the > 'for all slides?' dialogue box. So far, so good. > > Saved and reopened the presentation. > > Now, the background is gone. Just plain white left. So.... pick a > slide, and try the above. No 'for all slides?' dialogue; nothing > happens. Do it again.... now the dialogue appears and all slides > /except/ the current one are given the background. Select another > slide (that has the correct background) and do it again. Now this > slide reverts to a white b/g, no effect on the previous one, which > remains white. > > Any ideas what's going on here please? And how to fix it? > > Oh, 2.4.1/XP, btw. > > > > > -- > Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in > connection > with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. > http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because > of spam > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > No idea about what is going on unfortunately, but you may want to use a safer way, i.e. modify the slide master. View > Master > Slide Master
The easy way: Insert > Picture > from file then while the image is selected right click and in the context menu Arrange > Send to back The hard way Format > Area > Bitmap page, then press Import and import your image Format > Page > Background page Select Bitmap as gradient and click on the imported image. The advantage of the "hard way" is that you can control the image a bit better. All this and more on the OOoAuthors user guide ;-) Cheers, Michele
