To prevent the automatic start of the wizard with a new presentation choose Tools > Options, then select Presentation > General and disable 'Start with wizard“ under 'New document“. In OpenOffice.org 2.0 the options dialog is context-sensitive to the used module. If you start another module of OpenOffice.org, you cannot see this dialog. |
If you want to show your presentation with a beamer, also choose 'Screen“. |
For showing not too many elements at the figures, the Styles and Formatting window is not shown on some screen shots. |
You can purposefully choose one action from this list. You need not to take back all actions in chronological order. The menu will open, when you take a long click on the arrow button. |
In version 1.1 this toolbar was located at the left border of your window. If you prefer this, you can change the location of this toolbar. |
Small example for testing the toolbars and the 'Undo'/'Restore' arrows: |
Click in the lower text field of your presentation. Choose the rectangle in the Drawing bar. Place the rectangle with the mouse in the text field and change the size, so that the rectangle is a quarter of your text field. Choose an ellipse from the Drawing bar and place it on the right side of your text field, change the size. In the Line and Filling bar select another colour for the area of the ellipse (perhaps red). Click the Line Ends with Arrow button on the Drawing bar. Then click in the middle of the right side of your rectangle, drag your mouse to the left side of the ellipse and release the mouse button. In the Line and Filling bar, you can now choose a colour and a bigger thickness for the arrow. Please note, that the attitude in the Line and Filling bar only is valid for the selected object. You can select an object by clicking on it with the left mouse button. The selection is symbolised through the coloured squares around the object. By clicking on an already selected object, you can move the object to another place. By clicking and pulling with pressed mouse button on these coloured squares you can change the size of the object. After right-clicking an object the context menu will appear, where you have access to different object characteristics. Choose the rectangle and insert the text 'What first'. Select the text and choose a colour for it in the Line and Filling bar. Click the ellipse and insert the text 'And then'. Select the text and choose another colour for the fonts. Now you can do some experiments with the Undo/Redo arrows and take back different steps or make them again. At the end, delete all insertions from this example as a demonstration for the function of the Undo/Redo symbols. |
For your information: With the Tab key you have put the new slide in a lower category. The text, which was inserted as title is now a bullet point. Try this by creating a new slide and inserting text. Then place the mouse pointer in front of the newly added text and press the Tab key. As a next step place your mouse pointer in front of your bulleted list and press the combination <CAPS> + <Tab>. Your bulleted text will now change to a new title on the next slide. With this combination you can promote text to a higher level. |
If you have not chosen an object, you can right-click on a free part of your slide and choose Slide > Page Setup from the appearing context-menu. |
If you don't like the 'standard colors', you can define new colors. For more information about this look into the help file (menu help > Index and search for 'colors' (subsearch 'define'). |
First, you should know, where you have to save the template. You can see the path in the menu Tools > Options, 'OpenOffice.org', 'Paths', 'Templates'. |
You can use two paths for the templates (one directory for the templates for all users and one directory for your own templates). You have to save your templates in your own directory. If you use a multi-user system like Linux or Windows XP Professional and you want to save a template in the directory for all users the operating system will check, if you have write access to the chosen directory. Normally, you only have reading access but not writing access. When the template should be available for all users, you have to talk to your administrator. |
When you are a Windows user, you can use the shortcut <Strg> + <F2> (for versions of OpenOffice.org until 1.0.3). In the version 1.1.x, for starting the slide show you can press F9. |
The shortcut <Strg> + <F2> is used with Linux/KDE for another action. If you use Linux/KDE with a version of OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 (or lower) you should adapt the shortcut with Tools > Customize, to resolve the conflict. |
Use a cordless mouse (or one with a long cord), to be able to move freely during your lecture. |
This way has the advantage, that you can manipulate the quality of the created file. |
In former versions of OpenOffice.org the dialogs were in another order. The file dialog was the first step. If you cancelled the creation of the file in this first step, you probably had to delete the empty PDF file, which Impress already had created. |
Description of Change | ||
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0.1 | 042103 | Original-Dokument (german language) by Andreas Mantke (andreasma[at]openoffice.org) |
0.2 | 090203 | Update for OpenOffice.org 1.1 (german language) by Andreas Mantke (andreasma[at]openoffice.org) |
0.3 | 050805 | Update for OpenOffice.org 2.0 (german language) by Andreas Mantke (andreasma[at]openoffice.org) |
0.4 | 061405 | Translation into English by Sigrid Kronenberger (eskroni[at]openoffice.org) |
0.5 | 102305 | English screen shots by Andreas Mantke (andreasma[at]openoffice.org) |
0.6 | 113005 | Update to Oasis-format by Andreas Mantke (andreasma[at]openoffice.org) |
0.7 | 101307 | Move to Wiki and update section export to pdf by Andreas Mantke (andreasma[at]openoffice.org) |
0.8 | 201209 | Translation into Dutch by (DiGro[at]openoffice.org) |
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