Getting Started with Open Office .org 3 part 20. This Manual Book is for anyone who wants to get up to speed quickly with the latest version . “GETTING STARTED WITH ″ introduces all software programs of the OpenOffice bundle: Writer (word processing), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (vector drawings), Math (equation editor) and Base (database). This book was written by volunteers from the community working through and is distributed under the CreativeCommon Attribution Licence | Creating slide masters You can create a new slide master in a similar way to modifying the default slide master. To start enable editing of slide masters by View Master Slide Master. On the Master View toolbar click the New Master icon. A second slide master appears in the Slides pane. Modify this slide master to suit your requirements. It is also recommended that you rename this new slide master right-click on the slide in the Slides pane and select Rename master from the popup menu. When you are done close the Master View toolbar to return to normal slide editing mode. Applying a slide master In the Tasks Pane be sure the Master Pages section is showing. To apply one of the slide masters to all slides in your presentation click on it in the list. To apply a different slide master to one or more selected slides 1 In the Slide Pane select the slides you want to change. 2 In the Tasks Pane right-click on the slide master you want to apply to the selected slides and click Apply to Selected Slides on the pop-up menu. Loading additional slide masters Sometimes in the same set of slides you may need to mix multiple slide masters that may belong to different templates. For example you may need a completely different layout for the first slide of the presentation or you may want to add to your presentation a slide from a different presentation based on a template available on the hard disk . The Slide Design dialog makes this possible. Access this dialog either from the menu bar Format Slide design or by right-clicking on a slide in the Slides pane. The main window in the dialog shows the slide masters already available for use. To add more 1 Click the Load button. Chapter 6 Getting Started with Impress 191 2 Select in the new dialog the template from which to load the slide master. Click OK. 3 Click OK again to close the slide design dialog. The slide masters in the template you selected are now shown also in the Master Pages section of the Tasks pane in the Available .
