Create master slide and presentation
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Foreword
This description refers to the module Impress in LibreOffice.
The videos "Create my master slide" and ″Create my presentation″ link to this page here, which contains further information.
Used web images as screenshot taken from: [1]
Links to the Videos
Link to the Video (in German [DE]):
This video shows how to create your own master slide in Impress.
Link to the Video (in German [DE]):
This video shows how to create your own presentation in Impress.
Create My Master Slide - Discription to the Video - Part 1
Why do I need a master slide?
In the master slide you can define everything that should be visible and the same on all slides.
This can be a background image, a logo, the date and the page number.
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Note:
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Open Impress
Already with the call of Impress the dialog ″Choose a template″ appears.
In this, ready-made presentation layouts are offered.
Click and you will get the simple standard template called "Title Slide".
You can create your own master slide from the standard template and save it as a template.
In the Sidebar″ at ″Slide Properties″ the screen format is set to 16:9 in landscape mode.
This corresponds to today's templates and the widely used screen standard.
If a different screen format is selected, the existing fields on the slide should be adjusted as required.
Select layout
In the sidebar you can different layouts can be selected.
Leave it at the selected layout ″Title Slide″.
Switch on master view
Furthermore, the button for the master view is also located in ″Sidebar″ at ″Properties″ 
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Click the button.
In the master view you can now adjust the format, (size, font, font color) of all elements such as headline, text and the fields of the footer, which should be visible on all slides of the template.
Now edit these elements.
Rename Master
The first step is to select ″Rename Master″ 
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The dialog box ″Rename Slide″ displays ″Default″ as the name of the master slide.
Now you can enter a suitable name, for example ″Master Slide LibreOffice″ and click .
Renaming is not absolutely necessary, you can also simply reconfigure the master slide ″Default″.
However, if several master slides are used, it is important to distinguish between them by name.
Adjust format of heading
Select the text in the heading.
Now select the font size 40 at ″Properties″.
For the font color select hexadecimal 18A303.
Mark the edge of the heading field and select in the sidebar for
″Width″ = 22.00 cm and
″Height″ = 2.69 cm from.
Insert a Logo
Since the headline field has been shortened, you can now place a logo to the right of it.
On the toolbar ″Standard″ click on the ″Insert Image″ icon 
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In the dialog that opens ″Insert Image″ select the image ″Logo-quadrat.png″.
Click on .
The logo is placed centered on the slide.
If the logo is marked, change the dimensions at ″Position and Size″ in the sidebar.
″Position-X″= 23,90 cm
″Position-Y″ = 0,62 cm
″Width″ = 2,69 cm
″Height″ = 2,69 cm
Right-click in the footer on ″<Date/Time>″ and select .
In the tab ″Font″ select for ″western Text″ the Font ″Liberation Sans″.
In the tab ″Font effects″ select 18A303 hexadecimal for the font color.
This change simultaneously affects the other footer fields ″Footer″ and ″Slide number″.
Close master view
Click on the lettering ″Close master view″.
The footer does not yet include the information for ″Date/Time″, ″Footer″ and ″Slide number″.
Therefore, now click ▸ in the menu.
In the dialog ″Header and Footer″ that open, you still have to make the corresponding entries.
Here in the example you enter:
At ″Date and Time/fix″ enter the current date, e.g. "2018/06/12".
For footer text, enter e.g. ″Advertising for LibreOffice″.
At ″slide number″ place a checkmark.
Now click on .
Save master slide as document template
In the menu click on ▸ ▸ .
In the dialog box ″Save as document template″ select the category ″Presentations″.
Enter the template name, e.g. ″LibreOffice Advertising″.
Click on the .
Create My Presentation - Discription to the Video - Part 2
In part 1 of the two-part video series you have already created a master slide and saved it as a template with the name ″LibreOffice Advertising″.
You can now use this template for the presentation.
Open Impress and the document template
In the dialog ″Selecting a template″ search for the template (filter: presentation presentation) and click on the template ″LibreOffice Advertising″ and then on .
Start the presentation with the slide open.
Save presentation
First you should save the presentation.
Click on the "Save" icon 
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In the dialog box ″Save as″ enter ″My presentation_01″ as file name and click .
Headline and text for Slide 1
Enter ″THE FREEDOM″ in capital letters in the heading field.
In the text field in the middle you also write in capital letters
″LIBRE-OFFICE 6: THE FREE OFFICE PACKAGE THE LIBRE OFFICE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN DREAMING OF FOR MORE THAN TWELVE YEARS.″
Highlight the text and select "Bold" and "Italics" 
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For the character color, select hexadecimal 5F4697.
Background image basics
A background image can already be integrated in the master slide.
The background image is then later visible in all slides, but can also be changed again for each slide.
Here Impress is very flexible in its application.
The user only has to consider beforehand how best to proceed.
Insert background image for Slide 1
In the slide area, right-click on Slide 1 and select .
Select the tab ″Background″ and the button .
Click the button.
In the dialog ″Insert Image″ select the image ″LO-Web_01.png″ and click on } and then on .
At ″Style″, select ″stretched″.
Select the tab ″Transparency″ and click on the selection ″Transparency″ and enter 85% and .
Create Slide 2.
In the menu, click on ▸ .
Headline and Text for Slide 2
Enter ″MORE THAN AN OFFICE-SUITE″ in capital letters in the headline field.
In the text box in the middle write ″The community behind LibreOffice is the heart of the project″
Select the text and choose "Bold" and for the drawing color choose again hexadecimal 5F4697.
Switch off the "bullets".
And click on the icons ″Mittig ausrichten″ and ″Zentriert ausrichten″.
Insert background image for Slide 2
In the slide area, right-click on Slide 2 and select .
Select the tab ″Background″ and the button .
Click the button.
In the dialog ″Insert Image″ select the image ″LO-Web_02.png″ and click on and then on .
At ″Style″, select ″stretched″.
Select the tab ″Transparency″ and click on the selection ″Transparency″ and enter 85% and .
Create Slide 3
Right-click on slide 2 and select .
Headline and Text for Slide 3
Leave the heading as it is.
Mark the text in the middle and you write:
″LibreOffice is developed by the LibreOffice community under the umbrella of The Document Foundation (TDF).″
Create Slide 4.
Right-click on Slide 3 and select .
Headline and Text for Slide 4
Leave the heading as it is.
Select the text in the middle and write:
″Most members of the community are volunteers.″
Create Slide 5
Right-click on Slide 4 and select .
Headline and Text for Slide 5
Mark the heading and enter in capital letters ″I'M GONNA GET THAT″.
Select the text in the middle and write:
″https://www.libre-office.org″.
Select the text again and choose font size 60 and switch off Bold.
Click on the icon ″Align above″ 
and select 1″ (hexadecimal 1B75BC) as font color ″Light blue 1".
Now click on the symbol ″Insert Image″ .
Select the image ″LO webpage-Download″.
You can still adjust the image in size and position.
Insert background Image for Slide 5
In the slide area, right-click on Slide 5 and select .
Select the tab ″Background″ and the button .
Click the button.
In the dialog ″Insert Image″ select the image ″LO-Web_03.png″ and click on and then on .
At ″Style″, select ″stretched″.
Select the tab ″Transparency″ and click on the selection ″Transparency″ and enter 85% and .
Save presentation
Click on the icon ″Save″ .
Further Informations
Image files
Logo:
Web_01:
Web_02:
Web_03:
Download:
201806_LO_HB_Webseite-Download.png
Files: Document file and Presentation
Document template "LibreOffice Advertising":
Presentation "My Presentaion_01":
(In the presentation, the background images of the slides were removed so that the file is accepted in the Wiki system.)
Documentation / Manuals
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