On 1/10/07, Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Troy, Troy Bull wrote: > I teach computer programming and I want a slide with a big text box > area, where each line gets a line number. > > What I do now is open a blank slide add a text box, go in to bullets and > numbering, turn on numbering (under the numbering type tab), then switch > tabs to position and select level 1 then set "spacing to text" to be > .40, then on the customize tab set the After to "|" instead of ")". > > I would like to be able to pick this slide out of the layouts instead of > having to redo it every time i insert a new slide. I do several of > these (in the 20's or more) each class, 3 times a week. To make is easier: a) You can make presentation with one such a slide and save it as template; b) In the left panel (slides) make a copy of the slide (control-drag, or use the context menu). Best, -- Cor Nouws Arnhem - Netherlands nl.OpenOffice.org - marketing contact --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Troy,
Cor's and Dan's advices are good. I will expand 1. Create a new presentation 2. Go to View > Master > Slide Master 3. Right click in the Slides pane and select "New Master" from the context menu (it will be called default1 4. Rename the new master by clicking on the thumbnail in the Slides pane and selcting "Rename Master". Let's call it for example "NumberedLines" 5. Select the NumberedLines" master to bring it in the work area. Open the Styles and Formatting pressing F11 6. Right click on Outline1 in the "Presentation styles" dialog and choose Modify 7. In the dialog, go to the Customize tab select 1 from the list to the left and then choose 1,2, 3 for numbering style, type ¦ in the "After" edit box 8. Modify also the Font if necessary (for computer code a monotype font is normally preferred) and the "Indents and spacing" tab to adjust the position of the paragraph. You will have to play around with the values until you get what you want. A good bet would be 0.4 in the "From left" and -0.4 in the "First line". You may also want to reduce the spacing between paragraphs from 0.5cm to 0.1 or even to 0 (single line spacing). 9. Check if the first line of the text box is ok 10. If you do not want the title at all shrink the Title box and place it in a corner out of the way. Now close the master view 10. Back in the work area, select for the current slide a Title, Text layout then still in the task pane move to the Master Page tab and select the "NumberedLines" master. 11. Try typing some text to see if it does what you need. 12. Go to File > Template > Save and give it a memorable name 13. you are done! Now when you want to create a spresentation which uses the numbered lines layout, when you create a presentation select "From template" in the wizard, pick your template and off you go. The reason why we created a new master is that you can combine in the same presentation slides using the NumberedLines pages as well as default pages. Switch between the two from the Master Page tab of the Task Pane. Cheers, Michele
