Bottom post On Wednesday 11 October 2006 09:20 am, Bob Treder wrote: > I'm working in 2.0.3 but my comments go back to pre-2.0 versions. > > I have never tried changing one of the existing templates but I > have been successful at creating my own templates. I may have > started with an existing one but don't remember now. Anyway, I > expect you could take an existing one, modify it, save it with a > new template name and use that repeatedly. > > When you have Impress open with the template of choice, go to View > > Master > Slide Master. That opens up the header and footer to > modify as you wish. I put icons in my header and company name in > the footer which will appear on all slides. Also the style > formatting (e.g., indentation/font definitions) is displayed on the > master slide which you can modify. To modify style formatting, go > to Format > Styles and Formatting ... The dialog that opens will > have Graphics Styles and Presentations Styles available that you > can modify. I've modified both. The Presentations Style Formatting > is where I've set the indentation, font and color rules for my > slides. Right click one of them in the list to open a dialog for > making changes. When you have it the way you want it save it as a > template and then start there next time. > > There are a lot of options in Styles and Formatting. I remember I > spent a fair amount of time trying different things, amount of > indentation, different fonts and colors, different bullets until I > got what I wanted. > > I hope this is useful. > > Bob
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Dewhirst [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:47 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [users] presentation - style formatting inheritance > > I would like to adjust a style format in the template and see it > change every instance of content (on every slide) which uses that > style in that template. > > The example I am looking at is prs-strategy.otp (File | Templates | > Edit and I selected ..\en-US\presnt\prs-strategy.otp in Windows XP. > > No matter what I try I cannot seem to apply a style to any content. > > I searched the archives and found a few questions on the matter > going back a couple of years but no-one seems to have answered > those questions. > > The help pages indicate dragging styles from one presentation to > another in the Organize dialog. I cannot make that happen but even > if I could I don't know what I might be doing. It doesn't seem to > too closely aligned with what I actually want to do. > > Is there a trick to adjusting a style and seeing the content > change? > > Thanks > > Mike This is very good advice. There is a section describing how to do this in the Getting Started with Impress chapter of the Getting Started Guide. It is available for download at http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. It also contains some illustrations that may be helpful. Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
