OpenOffice Impress Notes

Demonstration

• Start OpenOffice Presentation (ooimpress)
• In the Presentation Wizard, select Empty presentation and click Next>>
• Select the Original slide design for a plain white slide
• Take defaults in the third wizard window
• Click Create
• I want the first slide to be a title slide so I pick that layout
• Enter some text
• Create next slide
• This time I want to use the Title with 2 text boxes layout
• Enter some text
• Create next slide (the Flop)
• Create next slide (the Turn)
• Create next slide (the River)
• Ok, thats fine, but it is pretty plain
• Lets change the Master look of the presentation
• View, Master, Slide Master
• Lets change the master name to PokerMaster
• Change the title font to Bitstream Vera Serif and knock the size down a little
• Next, change the bullets to something fancier
• I want my name in the footer and the footer closer to the bottom of the page
• Lets see how that looks: View, Normal
• Now add a consistent background
• View, Master, Slide Master
• Right cick on the Master, select Slide and Page Setup...
• On the Background tab, pick a color (Yellow 1)
• See how it looks: view, normal
• Change the card suit color so that it is correct
• From within impress, we can display the presentation in full screen mode (Slide Show)
• but... if we are going to run the presentation on another computer somewhere then pdf is probably the best format to use.
• File...Export as PDF...(the defaults are usually OK)
• Let's see how the pdf looks
• Click on the pdf file to view it with konqueror
• View...Presentation (use page up & page down; left click & right click, esc to exit)
• you can also use Adobe reader if it is installed or you are presenting using a windows computer
• Once the presentation is complete, be sure to attach it to your twiki page so the whole world can see and enjoy

• http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/template/index.html
• http://claudio.cicali.org/article/70/templates-for-openoffice-impress

• Go to http://claudio.cicali.org/article/70/templates-for-openoffice-impress
• From OpenOffice
• Plain
• Look at Black-cyan-yellow & download to /home/dalep/.openoffice.org2/user/template
• re-open /home/dalep/impress/poker.odp
• View, Master, Slide Master
• Right click in the master slide, select slide, and select Slide Design
• Click on Load and make sure that the My Templates category is selected in the left pane
• Highlight the Black-cyan-yellow template that we just downloaded and click OK
• Click OK again
• View, Normal to see how it looks
• Customize the logo and presentation name and some text color.
• Done