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have to resize the visible area on the slide. You can also insert an existing spreadsheet and use
the viewport to select the data that you want to display on your slide.
Impress offers the capability of inserting into a slide various other types of objects such as Writer
documents, Math formulas, Draw drawings, or another presentation. For details on using these
objects, refer to the Impress Guide Chapter 7 Including Spreadsheets, Charts, and Other Objects.
Working with slide masters and styles
A slide master is a slide that is used as the starting point for other slides. It is similar to a page style
in Writer and it controls the basic formatting of all slides based on it. A slide show can have more
than one slide master.
Note
LibreOffice uses three terms for a slide that is used to create other slides: master slide,
slide master, and master page. This book uses the term slide master, except when
describing the user interface.
A slide master has a defined set of characteristics, including background colors, graphics,
gradients; and other objects (such as logos, decorative lines and so on), headers and footers,
placement and size of text frames, and text format.
Styles
All of the characteristics of slide masters are controlled by styles. New slides that you create using
a slide master have styles that are inherited from the slide master which was used. Changing a
style in a slide master results in changes to all slides based on that slide master, but you can
modify individual slides without affecting the slide master.
Note
Although it is highly recommended to use the slide masters whenever possible, there
are occasions where manual changes are needed for a particular slide, for example to
enlarge the chart area when the text and chart layout is used.
Slide masters have two types of styles associated with them: presentation styles and image styles.
The prepackaged presentation styles can be modified, but new presentation styles cannot be
created. For image styles, you can modify the prepackaged styles and also create new image
styles.
Presentation styles affect three elements of a slide master: background, background objects (such
as icons, decorative lines, and text frames), and text placed on the slide. Text styles are further
divided into Notes, Outline 1 through Outline 9, Subtitle, and Title. The outline styles are used for
the different levels of the outline to which they belong. For example, Outline 2 is used for the sub-
points of Outline 1, and Outline 3 is used for the sub-points of Outline 2, and so on.
Image styles are not restricted and can affect many of the elements of a slide. Note that text styles
exist in both the presentation and image style selections.
Slide masters
Impress comes with a collection of slide masters. These slide masters are shown in the Master
Pages section of the Sidebar (Figure 154) and has three subsections: Used in This Presentation,
Recently Used, and Available for Use. Click the + sign next to the name of a subsection to expand
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