On Friday March 30 2007 12:32 pm, Ian Gilchrist wrote:
> As a relatively new user to OpenOffice, I am pleased to see an
> alternative to MS products. As an Instructor I tend to use
> Powerpoint as the medium for creating slide shows for my teaching
> material. Impress is very similar in feel to ppt, however I do
> notice that the range and number of slide backgrounds is very
> limited in Impress.
>
> Does OO have additional backgrounds that can be downloaded, or is
> there a method for customising the slide background ? I have tried
> using the help function but cannot find any info on this subject.
>
> EJL Associates
> Ian Gilchrist AVSEC C.M.
> AVSEC Consultant & Instructor
You can create additional backgrounds yourself. You might want to
look at the Getting Started with Impress chapter of the Getting
Started Guide. It is available at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. Look in the
Choosing a Master Page section of this chapter. It describes how to
change a Master Page (aka: master slide, slide master). If there are
particular slide backgrounds you use more than once, create a
presentation with those backgrounds as Master Pages. Then save the
file as a template. (File > Templates > Save) Then the next time you
want to use this set of backgrounds, use File > New > Templates and
Documents to open this template.
I use templates quite a bit, so I have added the icon for
Templates and Documents to my Standard Toolbar.
Dan
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