You might do this by right-clicking on another master page over there in the right-hand pane, like the nice green one, and choosing Apply to All Slides.ġ1. Now, what if you now think, hey, I like this thing I designed, but for the first few slides that I have here, I'm going to apply this other master page. Choose View > Normal to go back to normal view.ġ0. Add graphics, right-click on each and choose Arrange > Send to Back to put them in the background behind the text. Choose Format > Page, Background tab to change the background color. Not required but it's nice when you have a lot of them later.ħ. Right-click in the left hand pane and choose to rename the default new master page. Open or create your presentation or template.Ĥ. You're dying to create your own master page from scratch, to format presentations exactly the way you want. Then the master page(s) in that presentation will be available in all future presentations you create or edit. (Not always, but enough for it to be a big issue.) Also, choose File > Templates > Save and save whatever document you created the master page in. Now, you MUST apply that new master page to at LEAST one slide, or your wonderful new master page will go Poof. Create a new master page under View > Master > Slide Master by right-clicking in the lefthand pane, creating a new master page, and designing it.

Go ahead, but you need to care for it very very carefully. A template or presentation might have one or more master pages in it.Īll right.

Master pages are the backgrounds for your presentations. I'm going to post about two particular Impress issues: the disappearing master page, today, and on Friday, the wackiness surrounding creating two new master pages at once.

Impress is.well, it's not always as solid as the other applications.

Openoffice impress problem