Videos/My Master Slide in Impress

Foreword
This description refers to the module Impress in LibreOffice version 7.0.

The video "My master slide in Impress" shows how to create your own master slide in Impress and links to this page here, which contains further information.

Link to the video
Link to the video (in German [DE]):

Meine Masterfolie in Impress

Why do I need a master slide?
In the master slide you can define everything that should be visible on all slides and be the same on all slides.

This can be a background image, a logo, the date and the page number.

Note: If you want to use different background images on each slide, you can insert them directly on the slides.

Open Impress
The [[Media:202007_LO70EN_Impress Dialog Select a template.png|″Select a Template″]] dialog appears when starting Impress.

The dialog offers ready layouts for a presentation.

Click on to get the simple default template.

You can now create your own master slide from the standard template and save it as a template.

In the sidebar at [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Sidebar properties Slide.png|″Properties|Slide″]] 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 select from [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Sidebar Layouts.png|different Layouts]].

Leave it at the selected layout [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Sidebar Layout Title Slide.png|″Standard″ Layout]].

Switch on master view


In the ″Sidebar at ″Properties″ there is also the button for the ″Master View″.

Click on the button.

In the master view you can now adjust the format, such as size, font and 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) Slide″ in the menu.

The [[Media:202007_LO70EN_Impress Dialog Rename Slide.png|″Rename Slide″]] dialog displays ″Default″ as the Master Slide name.

Now you can enter an appropriate name, for example "Master Slide LibreOffice" and click.

The renaming is not necessarily required, you can also simply reconfigure the Master Slide "Default".

However, if multiple Master Slides are used, a distinction in the name is important.

Adjust the header style
Place the cursor in the heading or select the text.

The template [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Sidebar Presentation Styles.png|″Titel″]] is marked in the Sidebar under Presentation Styles Templates.

Right-click on the template and select ″Modify…″.

In the ″Titel″ dialog, click the ″Font″ tab.

Now select the font size 40 at ″Size″.

In the tab [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Dialog box Title.png|″Font Effects″]] select 1C71D0 for the ″Font Colour|Custom Colour″ hexadecimal.

Click twice on.

Mark the frame of the heading field and remove the checkmark for ″Keep aspect ratio″ in the sidebar at ″Properties|Position and Size″.

Enter the values:

″Width″ = 22,00 cm and

″Height″ = 2,70 cm.

Insert a Logo


Since the headline field has been shortened, you can now place a logo to the right of it.

On the Standard toolbar, click the ″Insert Image″ icon.

In the dialog box "Insert Image", select the image "202007_LOENHB_Logo Square - LibreOffice.png".

Click.

The logo is placed centered on the slide.

If the logo is marked, change the dimensions in "Position and Size" in the Sidebar ″Properties″.

″Position-X″= 23,90 cm

″Position-Y″ = 0,60 cm

″Width″ = 2,70 cm

″Height″ = 2,70 cm

Customize fields of the footer
Right-click on "" in the footer and select.

In the Font tab, for ″Liberation Serif″, select the [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Dialog box Background objects.png|″Liberation Sans″]] Font.

In the "Font Effects" tab, select 1C71D0 for the Font Color hexadecimal.

Klick on.

This change affects the other Footer fields ″″ and ″″ at the same time.

[[Media:Finished slide in the master view.png|Finished slide in the master view]]

Close Master View


Click on the [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Menu Close Master View Icon.png|″Close Master View″ Icon"]] or on the Sidebar the Button.

Enter information for Footer
In the Footer, the ″Date/Time″, ″Footer″ and ″Number″ details are not yet visible.

Therefore, click in the menu.

In the opening dialog [[Media:202007_LOENHB_Impress Dialog box Header and Footer.png|"Header and Footer"]] you still have to enter the appropriate information.

Here in the example you enter:

For "Date and Time/Fixed", enter the current date, e.g. the "2020/07/31″.

For footer text, enter, e.g. "Advertising for LibreOffice".

For "Slide number" checkmark the box.

Now click on.

Save master slide as a template
In the menu, click.

In the ″Save as Template″ dialog box, select the category "Presentations".

Enter the template name, e.g. "202007_Advertising for LibreOffice".

Click on.

Docking slide area
There are the following ways to dock the slide area to the left side:


 * 1) Grab the slide pane with the mouse at the top window frame, click-hold-drag the slide pane to the left [[Media:73 Impress Slide area - drag.png|until a gray frame appears]], and release the mouse button.
 * 2) Click in the  menu to hide the Slide Pane. From the  menu, click so that the Slide Pane is visible and docked.
 * 3) [[Media:73 Impress Slide area - Ctrl+double-click.png| an empty space]], such as the area below the title bar.
 * 4) [[Media:73 Impress Slide area - Ctrl+Shift+F10.png|Press  while the Slide Pane has the input focus]].

Work Files


Template: "Advertising for LibreOffice":

[[Media:202007_Advertising for LibreOffice.otp|202007_Advertising for LibreOffice.otp]]

Presentation: "My Presentation":

[[Media:202007_Meine_Praesentation.odp|German presentation]]

(In the presentation, the background images of the slides were removed for the file to be accepted in the wiki system. )

Logo:

[[Media:202007_LOHB_Logo Square - LibreOffice.png|202007_LOHB_Logo Square - LibreOffice.png]]

Web_01:

[[Media:201907 ENLOHB Web 01.png|201907 ENLOHB Web 01.png]]

Web_02:

[[Media:201907 ENLOHB Web 02.png|201907 ENLOHB Web 02.png]]

Web_03:

[[Media:201907 ENLOHB Web 03.png|201907 ENLOHB Web 03.png]]

Download:

[[Media:202007_LOENHB_Website Download.png|202007_LOENHB_Website Download.png]]

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