To change only the selected slide, click No.Īfter creating a new slide, decide what this slide will contain and what layout is most suitable for the purpose. A pop-up dialog (shown below) asks if you want to change the background on all slides. Follow the instructions in Formatting areas in Chapter 6.Select Format > Page from the menu bar, or right-click and choose Page Setup from the pop‑up menu to open the Page Setup dialog.
See Chapter 6 (Formatting Graphic Objects) for details. See Chapter 2 for details about using slide masters.Īpplying a background to a slide master or to individual slides is no different from filling the area of a shape. To allow resizing the slide objects and fonts to fit the paper, select the Fit object to paper format checkbox.Ī presentation can have multiple slide masters, so the need for modifying slide backgrounds should be an exception. In the Layout settings section, select the page number format in the Format drop‑down list.In the Margins section, you can change the spacing between the edges of the page and the contents of the slide.For more about printing presentations, see Chapter 10. This is useful if, for example, you want to print slides on transparencies and handouts on ordinary paper.
Note that in Impress you cannot specify different trays for different pages (slides), as you can in Writer however, you can specify different trays for printing slides, notes, and handouts.
Switch to Normal view (click the tab in the main work area or select View > Normal in the menu bar).You can change the background of individual slides, as described here. You cannot define more than one page style in Impress, as you can in Writer or Calc. Any changes to the page format (size, margins, orientation, and so on) apply to all slides in the presentation.