On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:54, Dan Lewis wrote: > I ran into the same problem: Autumn4 is listed in the Available > to Use section, but double clicking it caused it to disapper and the > template was not applied. (Just like yours.) However, there are two > ways to solve your problem. I think the second one might be a little > easier. > 1) Choose the Default Master Page as your slide master. > Use View > Master > Slide Master to edit the Default Master Page. > Right click the slide in the Slide pane and select Slide Design from > the context menu to open the Slide Design menu. Click the Load button > in the lower right of that window to open the Load Slide Design > window. Under categories, click Presentation. Autumn4 should be the > top of the list of templates. Click Autumn4, and then click OK. Click > OK in the Slide Design window. Then use View > Normal. It should now > work.
This works for existing presentations, but it does not allow for the students to use the right "Task Pane"=>"Master Pages"=>"Available for Use". > 2) For this you need a bitmap of Autumn4. Use the Default Master > Page as your slide master. Format > Area will open the Area window. > Make sure the Bitmaps tab is selected. Use the Import button to > import the Autumn4 bitmap. Click the same button to add this bitmap > to the bitmap list. (The files to save is standard.sob.) Then click > the Area tab. Select Bitmaps in the Fill drop down menu. Then select > Autumn4 from the list. Click OK. This also works but it takes allot of time to unzip the existing template files to extract the Picture/bitmap. > You may find additional information on creating presentations > from the "Getting Started with Impress" chapter of the Getting > Started Guide. It is available at > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/index.html. An > Impress Guide is also being written by the OOo Authors group, but it > is incomplete at this time. I had a look through it but did not find any solutions for fixing the "Available for Use" bar. I also looked at the "Working With Templates", and "Quickstart Guide for Impresss" but I could not find any answers. I uploaded the original Autumn4.pot powerpoint template that was converted using the openoffice conversion tool "File"=>"Wizards"=>"Document Converter" http://www.sd73.bc.ca/download/tmp/Autumn4.pot As Henri suggested... I also installed OpenOffice 2.1 on a Windows XP box. Converted the Autumn4.pot to OpenOffice template. And OpenOffice 2.1 for windows XP has the same problem in the "Master Pages"=>"Available for Use". We have about 150 templates, it would be nice if we could get them to work globally through the "Available for Use" Pane. P.S. Thanks for all the support so far. All Elementary Schools and most High Schools in our district are running OpenOffice. The teachers and students and technicians appreciate all of the support for OpenOffice. : ) -- Dean Montgomery Network Support Tech./Programmer School District #73 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
