Operation Manual

4) Click Apply to All to apply your changes to all the slide masters in your presentation, or
click Apply to apply your changes to the selected slide master in your presentation.
5) Alternatively, you can add the date/time, footer text and slide number directly into their
respective areas as shown in Figure 159.
Note
Normally only footers are used on a slide. To create a header, you can use a text box
as explained in “Text” on page 183.
Fields
To add a field into an object or as a separate object on a slide, select Insert > Fields on the Menu
bar and select the required field from the submenu. If you want to edit this field in your slide, see
the Impress Guide Chapter 3 Adding and Formatting Text for more information.
The fields you can use in Impress are as follows:
• Date (fixed)
• Date (variable): updates automatically when you reload a file
• Time (fixed)
• Time (variable): updates automatically when you reload a file
• Author: first and last names listed in the LibreOffice user data
• Page Number: this is the slide number in Impress.
• Page Count: this is the number of slides in your presentation.
• File Name
Tip
To change the author information, go to Tools > Options > LibreOffice > User Data
on the Menu bar.
To change the number format (1,2,3 or a,b,c or i,ii,iii, and so on) for the number field,
go to Format > Page on the Menu bar and then select a format from the Format list in
the Layout Settings area.
To change a paragraph style throughout your presentation, open the Styles and
Formatting dialog and modify the appropriate presentation style.
Adding comments to a presentation
Impress supports comments similar to those in Writer and Calc.
In Normal View, go to Insert > Comment on the Menu bar to open a blank comment (Figure 161).
A small box containing your initials appears in the upper left-hand corner of the slide, with a larger
text box beside it. Impress automatically adds your name and the current date at the bottom of the
text box.
Type or paste your comment into the text box. You can optionally apply some basic formatting to
the comment by selecting it, right-clicking, and choosing from the context menu that opens. This
menu allows you to apply formatting to selected text, delete the current comment, delete all
comments from the same author, or delete all comments in the presentation.
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