One of the other things I noticed was that the ODF elements treat whitespace as significant, so when I re-packed the document, I lost my spacing. The attribute was missing from the page element.Īfter getting very frustrated with it, I decided that I'd try and experiment with re-applying the master (which didn't work). Not sure why it stopped appearing, but it suddenly did on both 2.4 under Ubuntu 'Hardy' and the official Sun release under WinXP.Īnyway, I unpacked the Impress document bundle to see what was happening in the XML, and for some reason, the reference to the footer text just wasn't showing up in the new slides. Ran across this page when trying to solve a mystery with disappearing footer text from some slides I recently added. Master page(s) in that presentation will be available in all future To be a big issue.) So even if you don't intend to apply your new master page to the first slide, keep it applied there until you apply it to other slides.Īlso, as soon as you've created your master page, choose File > Templates > SaveĪnd save whatever document you created the master page in.

You MUST apply that new master page to at LEAST one slide, and keep it applied. Your beautiful master page that you worked so hard on is gone. You might do this by right-clicking on another master page over there in the right-hand pane, like the nice green one, and choosing Apply to All Slides.ġ1. Now, what if you now think, hey, I like this thing I designed, but for the first few slides that I have here, I'm going to apply this other master page. Choose View > Normal to go back to normal view.ġ0. Add graphics, right-click on each and choose Arrange > Send to Back to put them in the background behind the text. Choose Format > Page, Background tab to change the background color. Not required but it's nice when you have a lot of them later.ħ. Right-click in the left hand pane and choose to rename the default new master page. Open or create your presentation or template.Ĥ. You're dying to create your own master page from scratch, to format presentations exactly the way you want. Then the master page(s) in that presentation will be available in all future presentations you create or edit. (Not always, but enough for it to be a big issue.) Also, choose File > Templates > Save and save whatever document you created the master page in. Now, you MUST apply that new master page to at LEAST one slide, or your wonderful new master page will go Poof. Create a new master page under View > Master > Slide Master by right-clicking in the lefthand pane, creating a new master page, and designing it. Go ahead, but you need to care for it very very carefully. A template or presentation might have one or more master pages in it.Īll right. Master pages are the backgrounds for your presentations. I'm going to post about two particular Impress issues: the disappearing master page, today, and on Friday, the wackiness surrounding creating two new master pages at once. Impress is.well, it's not always as solid as the other applications.

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