Dan Lewis wrote:
Bottom post
see below
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.
I think I found the problem.
It turns out that some of the slides in a partly prepared presentation
were responding to modification in the Styles and Formatting dialog BUT
others including the slide on screen at the time were not.
I must have previously tweaked the unresponsive slides in a way which
prevented them from inheriting the modifications. Maybe I had pasted
text and it carried its own style with it? Dunno. I come to this
conclusion because I inserted a new slide and copied the unresponsive
text to Textpad and then copied it as plain text back into the new
slide. Thereafter it behaved nicely.
The documentation you (Dan) referred to was useful because it said the
software should automatically do what I wanted. Clearly I had introduced
a problem because it wasn't doing it - in a couple of slides I was watching.
Thank you Dan and Bob
Regards
Mike
Dan
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