On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 14:16 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear user support team for openoffice.org:
> I was confused trying to find how to set the background colour using your
> program. I found that, in general, the tools to do such simple tasks were
> not discoverable, but were rather hidden, categorized in dialogs that
> likely made sense to the interface designer, but did not make sense to me.

We have guides that should help you overcome these difficulties. See
http://documentation.openoffice.org/ for the selection. In particular, I
think you would find
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf
useful.

> I eventually found how to set the background colour, but I spent much more
> time trying to locate said control than thinking about the design of the
> slide.
> Concerned but supportive user,

Ah, you mean in Impress. Please open OOo Impress and select 
Help > Contents > Index > Search term > backgrounds;changing to discover
how to do what you want.
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