Which of the following should you use if you want all slide in Libreoffice impress to have the same look?
[Update February 8, 2013. I haven't updated this page in a couple years so I'm not sure when Impress improved, but LibreOffice just released version 4.0 so I figured I'd give that a try. All of the slides in this test are now rendered correctly, as shown below. I'm still a bit annoyed at the apparent lack of anti-aliasing, and as a result they still look better under PowerPoint. Also note that these slides aren't the complete story; see slide 13 as displayed on the original page; apparently PPTX presentations that use the "new" fancy shapes introduced in 2007 are still hopeless. But at least it's now possible to make a PPTX presentation that Impress will render correctly (without editing the master slides), so I guess that's good news.] Show These tests are much simpler than the ones from my actual presentation. (In some respects, this isn't really true, but it's good to be sure.) What I did was as follows. I opened PowerPoint 2007 and let it create a default document. (For those who only use OpenOffice, this consists of a presentation with one title slide. The title slide has a title and a subtitle text box, both of them "ephemeral" in the sense that if you don't modify the contents, they are invisible during the actual presentation.) I then modified it along two axes:
This gave six presentations, which are shown in the table below. For the most part, the PowerPoint screenshots are taken from the editing window and the Impress screenshots are taken from presentation mode, but in both cases it wouldn't make a difference, all the slides look the same both ways in both programs since there are none of those ephemeral fields. (If you're curious this was just for expediency; I took the PPT screenshots first and it was way faster to take them in-window. When it came time for OpenOffice, I wanted to show that the "click to edit the master subtitle" field doesn't disappear during presentations, so I did those from presentation mode, but I didn't want to go back to PPT to redo those.) Here are links to the actual presentations:
For screenshots we'll start out with a pair of representative comparisons so I can show slightly larger thumbnails: both of the ones with white backgrounds. (The background-styles variation shows a new problem -- Impress doesn't honor that setting -- but that's harder than I initially thought, as it gets the background right when set a different way. Other than that, all the other comparisons are really the same.)
And now the full results (note that LibreOffice 4.0 renders all blank slides correctly, so I didn't bother putting up screenshots):
So what have we learned? (Note: most of the below was fixed between OpenOffice 3.2 and LibreOffice 4.0)
Which of the following should you use if you want to all the slides in the presentation to have the same look?a presentation design template
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How do I make all my slides the same?Select the slide to which you want to apply the design. On the Design tab, right-click the design in the Themes group, and then click Apply to Selected Slides.
Which icon is used to add a new slide in Libreoffice Impress?Inserting slides
To insert a new slide use the Insert Slide button on the toolbar. Choose and click one of the available layout icons. Alternatively you can insert a new slide using the Slides pane. Right click and choose New Slide.
How do you change the slide design in Libreoffice Impress?Select one or more slides in your presentation (in Normal View) Open the Page Setup Dialog. Click on the Background tab, select a background type (color, gradient, or bitmap) and change settings. A pop-up message asks if you want to change the background on all slides.
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