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How do I apply a presentation style in OpenOffice impress?

I'm working from a template someone else provided for me. In the "Styles and Formatting" window are a number of useful styles such as "Outline 1", "Outline 2", etc.

If I click in a piece of text in a slide, the corresponding item in the "Styles and Formatting" window is highlit, as I would expect.

How do I select one of these styles and apply it to the text I'm editing? I thought double-clicking on a style name would work as it does for OpenOffice Writer, but nothing happens.

What am I missing?

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The styles concept in Impress is different from that implemented in Writer. There are presentation styles applying to "structural elements" of your presentation on the one hand and graphics styles applying to graphics objects on the other.

Which presentation style is applied depends on the type of the object . For example, the "outline" styles are applied to the different outline entries, and the applied style depends on the level of each single outline entry. So, to "apply" another presentation style you will have to modify the outline level, e.g. by simply increasing the level using TAB .

The same is true for the "Notes" presentation style: It will be applied automatically if you add notes using the "Notes" page of your Impress presentation.

This means: you can't simply select one of the presentation styles to modify the layout of the content. Instead, you could insert and use drawing objects using the Drawing Toolbar . For example, if you want to insert some code samples on different styles with consistent layout, you could insert text boxes using the drawing toolbar and define a Graphics Style , selecting a monospaced font and some nice background/border. That graphics style can be applied manually to different drawing objects as usual.

Of course, you can modify the presentation styles to change the style of every "outline 3" entry, for example.

• That helps somewhat, but doesn't solve everything. I'd already noticed that using the arrow buttons to demote or promote outline entries was changing the indentation and the bullet, but the font size is remaining the same. E.g.: I'm at outline 1. I start a new item by hitting return. I hit tab. The font, indentation, and bullet change to outline 2, but the font size remains the same. –  Edward Falk Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 18:05
• Hmmm; looks like I've simply stumbled on a bug. I can modify a style and change any attribute I want except the font size. Changing it has no effect. For now, I'll settle for manually setting the font size for every item. –  Edward Falk Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 18:41
• @Edward: Very strange. I've just tested modifying the font size of some of the "Outline" Styles, and everything works fine. I'm working with OpenOffice 3.2 and LibreOffice 3.4.3. So i don't think it's a bug. It's more likely that your presentation has "hard formatting" applied, so the style definitions won't be effective. You will have to reset the hard formatting first before changes of the styles definitions will be visible. Just select the Outline view, hit CTRL+A to select the complete text, and select Default Formatting from the Format menu. –  tohuwawohu Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 20:01
• I have no idea what "hard formatting" is, but your suggestion worked! –  Edward Falk Commented Sep 29, 2011 at 21:13
• @Edward: great, i'm happy that it worked! BTW: "hard formatting" means assigning style elements (font, font size, bold/italics) not using styles but directly, using the "Styles and Formatting" toolbar, for example. "Soft formatting" is using styles and templates. Text with "hard formatting" won't change on changes of the Paragraph Style, since hard formatting overrides soft formatting. So, you had to remove the "hard formatting" before the Style definitions got visible. –  tohuwawohu Commented Sep 30, 2011 at 7:09

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OpenOffice.org Impress: Using Master Slides

The Master view in Impress is the equivalent of page styles in Writer. It's the view where you can set elements of design that appear throughout your presentation, such as the slide background and foreground colors, any reoccurring elements, and the fonts. By creating the master slides you need before you add content, you can automate your work and free yourself to focus on content.

Master slides are quick to learn. But the real trick to using them well is not a deep understanding of the software, so much as a sense of modern design. The stylized form of a presentation does not alter the concepts you use to design one, any more than the limited space of a business card affects how it is designed. Both use the same basic elements as any modern design project, such as contrast of different elements, the alignment or proximity of related ones, and repetition of the look and location of reoccurring elements.

Moreover, if all else fails, you are unlikely to go far wrong if you keep your design as simple as possible. For most purposes, you can treat a slide as a special case of online design, little different from designing a web page except that you don't need to struggle against the limits of HTML.

Much of this design work, of course, can be done using Impress' initial wizard. However, if you want to modify the results, or prefer to do things for yourself, you can modify the results by selecting View -> Master -> Slide Master (there is also a Notes Master, but since nobody except you are like to see your notes unless you print them, it is less important). Once you are in the Master view, then it is mainly a matter of experimentation until you find a design that meets your needs.

Choosing the background and foreground

Presentation backgrounds are one of the two types of templates available for Impress (the other, simply called Presentations, gives you the outline structure for your presentation).

You can download and install dozens of free templates for Impress . However, as with any free content, the quality of these templates varies considerably.

So, how do you choose which template to use or how to modify one? Simple: You choose one that will make text readable from ten meters away on a projector screen. In other words, the ideal template has either a dark background and light text, or a light background with dark text, because contrast makes reading easier. Because our ideas about reading are still conditioned by the printed page, a light background and dark text is most common, but, in practice, the reverse can also be effective, especially in a short presentation, or when alternated with the more traditional choice.

It's all a matter of contrast, really -- which is why a background of a full-color photo is usually a poor choice for readability. No matter what text color you choose, some part of a background photo won't contrast with it. And, given that the perversity of the universe is set on stun in such cases, the text that blends into the background will probably be the text you want to emphasize the most. If you must use a photo, try to position it on the edges of the slide or in a footer (see below), where it is less likely to conflict with text.

You can choose a background in the start wizard, or by inserting a design via Insert -> Picture -> From File, then right-clicking on it so that it fills the entire slide. Alternatively, you can press F11 for the Style and Formatting palette, then go to Presentation Styles -> Background, and right-click to select Modify and go on to choose the exact type of fill you want.

Similarly, to change the font, open Styles and Formatting, then go to Presentation Styles -> Outline 1 -> Modify -> Font Effects to change the color. Since the presentation styles are hierarchical, modifying the font for the Outline 1 style will modify the font for all the other Outline styles. You also need to repeat the change for the Title style.

If you choose, you can do multiple master pages by selecting New Master from the Master View palette that appears whenever you open the Master view. In certain circumstances, such as a presentation in which a question appears on one slide and its answer on the next, multiple master slides can be effective, especially if you reverse the background and foreground. However, if you don't have a specific use for multiple master slides, using them will only clutter the look of your presentation.

Setting up reoccurring elements

Many slide shows have elements that appear on every page, such as a footer with information about the presenter and owner of the show or its title. The default master page, you notice, has footers for the date and time and slide number, as well as a blank footer in the middle in case you want to add such features as a copyright notice.

If you want, you can ignore footers, using the same color scheme as for the rest of the slide. However, if you want them to look different, you can set the footer background and foreground colors by selecting F11 -> Presentation Slides -> Background Objects. You might also decide if you want to use the drawing tools to add a line to the top of the footer to separate it from the rest of the slide. Footers are also ideal places to position a company or project logo, so it doesn't get in the way of the text.

You might also choose to delete some of the default footers or drag them to new positions, or to add another reoccurring element using a text box. Much of the information in a footer (or a header, if you create one) can be added automatically by selecting from the Insert -> Fields sub-menu.

You can also add other reoccurring elements, such as company logos or contact information. If they're added to the master view, they'll appear whenever the master slide to which they were added is used. If you are really ambitious, you might even go so far as to click on the text frames for the titles or bullet points and reposition them. A simple change such as a vertical title bar can be surprisingly effective for an audience that has sat through dozens of presentations, each using the same basic slide layouts.

Choosing a font

When working with fonts for a slide show, the most important thing to remember is that you are designing a document that people will view from a distance. That means that the larger you can make your fonts, the better.

If you check the default sizes used by Impress, you'll find that Titles are 44 points, the top level of bullet points 33, and the ninth level 20. These sizes should be considered minimums, rather than ideals. If you can afford to make the font sizes larger with adding a lot of hyphens and one or two word long lines, most of the time, your audience will be grateful.

Another consideration is the type of font you choose. The conventional wisdom is that serif fonts, which have small appendages at right angles to a line at the top or bottom, are harder to reader online than sans serif fonts, which lack these appendages. However, this generality is not true for slab serifs , and may fail in any particular case. The only way to be sure, unless you are an experienced typographer, is to experiment.

Some people also suggest that, for North American audiences, serif fonts look more conventional and sans serifs more innovative. Following this logic, you might find that using a serif font makes radical ideas seem more acceptable, or that using a sans serif might make an old idea seem newer. Personally, though, I'm skeptical of such ideas.

Whatever fonts you choose, the basic design tradition is to limit the number of typefaces you use to a minimum -- no more than two, you'll often hear suggested. This is not as limiting as it sounds, because you can use the bold weight of a typeface for the title, the regular weight for the bullet points, and a condensed or an italicized weight for footers.

Putting master slides to work

At this point, you may not have finalized slide transitions or any sound clips you plan to use, but the general look of your slide show should be complete. Before you click Close Master View on the floating palette to return to the normal Impress view, take a moment to look at each of your master slides from about a meter and a half away.

Is the appearance tidy and uncluttered? Can you read the title and top bullet points (the bottom ones don't matter as much, because you probably won't be using more than two or three levels of bullet points at the very most). Possibly, you will need to do a sample normal page to ensure that reoccurring elements don't interfere with the text, but if you can answer "Yes" to both these questions, then you are largely finished with the Master view.

Once you are satisfied with the design, applying it is simple. If you have a single master slide, it will be used automatically. If you have multiple masters, then the default is the first one listed. You can choose another one by selecting View -> Tasks to open the task pane on the right side of the viewing window, then, from the task bar, selecting Master Pages and choosing an alternative from the Available for Use pane.

Like styles, setting up master pages may seem a nuisance when all you want to do is start adding content to your presentation. But, spend a little time working with master pages and you'll not only find that the overall design is stronger, but that you've saved time by not modifying pages individually.

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While they agree on some issues and diverge on others, Mitch Roth and Kimo Alameda differ sharply in style and presentation.

The close race for Big Island mayor, pitting incumbent Mitch Roth against challenger Kimo Alameda, is one of Hawaii’s most highly watched political contests this election season.

In the Aug. 10 primary, Roth received 36.5% of vote and Alameda — a clinical psychologist and self-described local Hilo boy — took 26%. Neither of the two top vote-getters reached the 50% needed to avoid the Nov. 5 run-off.

Roth, Hawaii County’s former prosecuting attorney, and Alameda have been holding debates across the island.

The two candidates could hardly be more different in style.

What Sets Them Apart

Alameda, who is of Hawaiian and Portuguese ancestry, grew up in a blue-collar family on a 25-acre cattle and horse ranch in Waiakea-Uka. He cracks jokes and peppers his speech with Hawaiian Pidgin. Alameda seems comfortable talking with anyone, including reporters, and has family spread across the island.

The former head of the Hawaii Island Fentanyl Task Force , Alameda has an extensive health care background. He’s the former chief executive of Bay Clinic, now Hawaii Island Community Health Center after a 2022 merger with West Hawaii Community Health Center. He served as vice president of business development at Hawaii Island Community Health Center until stepping down to run for mayor.

Early in his career, Alameda worked as a school counselor and special education teacher. He’s also led the Hawaii County Office of Aging , the state Department of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division and the Adult Mental Health Division ‘s Office of Multicultural Services, according to his bio.

The father of seven became widowed in May when his wife Star passed away unexpectedly.

California-born Roth appears to be more of an introvert. He’s a high school dropout who later earned a GED diploma at Kaimuki High School in Honolulu, graduated from the University of Hawaii Manoa and law school in California, and taught English for two years in Japan where he met his wife, Noriko, who works for Subaru Telescope.

After serving as a deputy prosecutor in Honolulu, Roth moved to the Big Island in 1998 for a similar job and rose through the ranks to become the county’s prosecuting attorney, a job he held for eight years before winning the mayor’s seat four years ago.

Far from a natural-born politician, Roth has a less-than-smooth speaking style, often stumbling over words or struggling to make his points succinctly. But Roth is strong with facts and statistics, and often sprinkles them effectively to underscore his points. He describes himself as a “problem solver” who pays meticulous attention to details.

Roth said in an interview that’s what sets him apart from his opponent.

“I haven’t heard a lot of specifics” from Alameda, Roth said.

Alameda counters by saying Roth hasn’t accomplished much in the three-plus years he’s held office and is only now stepping up because there’s an election at stake.

“You can’t starting playing the game in the fourth quarter,” Alameda said during a debate at the Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort on Thursday evening at the conclusion of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement convention.

Trading Barbs

The two sparred at a Civil Beat forum the Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area on Sept. 13, trading barbs over key issues like hazard pay, wastewater treatment plants, building permits, affordable housing, telescopes on Mauna Kea, Pohakuloa Training Area and homelessness.

One of the points Alameda often makes is that West Hawaii contributes some 70% of the county’s tax revenue but only receives about 30% of the services.

The Kona side isn’t “feeling the love,” he often says, something Alameda pledges to fix if elected.

Both he and Roth agree that the leeward side’s main hospital, located in South Kona, isn’t adequate to address public needs.

Roth mentioned in the Sept. 13 debate that he almost died of a heart attack in 2021 while in South Kohala. He had to be transported to Waimea’s North Hawaii Community Hospital, then taken to Hilo’s medical center where he eventually had a stent implanted.

“There’s no cath lab on this side of the island,” he said.

Roth said he’s talking with The Queen’s Health Systems, Kaiser Permanente and others, including philanthropists, about building a new hospital and predicts that one will open in the next six years.

Alameda said that his long history and relationships in the health care field would give him a better shot at getting a new hospital built.

Sewage Woes

The island’s dilapidated wastewater treatment plants are another prominent issue.

Alameda said Hilo’s sewage plant is “the worst in the nation” and that the Roth administration has no plans to fix it, despite repeated accidents when wastewater was discharged with minimal treatment into Hilo Bay.

Roth strongly disputes that.

“We started working on it since day one,” when he took office in December 2020, Roth said.

In fact, bids were unsealed on Sept.13 for the first two phases of overhauling the Hilo wastewater plant. The lowest bid of $337 million was submitted by Nan Inc., according to public records .

The county plans to begin the overhaul, expected to take five to seven years, by the end of this year.

In the meantime, the plant remains under an administrative consent order with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Hazard Pay And Grievances

Alameda blames Roth for failing to distribute hazard pay to county employees who came to work during the pandemic. He said that’s why three of the main unions representing blue- and white-collar county workers have endorsed him over the incumbent.

Hawaii County was one of the safest places to be during the pandemic, Roth said. Hazard pay was used instead to keep mom-and-pop companies open and for rental assistance to prevent people from being evicted, he said.

“We gave funds to help people stay afloat,” Roth said. “Would you not have done that?”

Taking care of county employees should have come first, Alameda responded.

Some $70 million in hazard pay is at stake, according to Roth’s estimates. The matter is under arbitration.

Alameda says county employees are demoralized, as evidenced by the high number of formal grievances they’ve filed. Roth says the number of grievances is on par with previous administrations.

In fact, grievances have risen under Roth’s administration. In fiscal year 2024, there were 52, according to the county Department of Human Resources. The year Roth took office, 29 grievances were filed. That jumped to 50 in fiscal year 2021. In 2022, employees and unions filed 41 grievances followed by 37 in 2023.

By comparison, from 2015 to 2019, grievances never topped 30 in any given year, according to county data. It’s uncertain what role the pandemic played in the numbers.

Hot Button Issues

Both men said they would support the Thirty Meter Telescope atop Mauna Kea, although Alameda said he has only recently come around to that viewpoint. In 2019 he took part in demonstrations to oppose TMT.

As a Native Hawaiian and a psychologist, Alameda said he’s well-suited to resolve some of the heartache the TMT project has caused among the Hawaiian community, many of whom view the telescopes on the mauna as a desecration.

The two candidates also are not far apart on the contentious issue of a lease renewal for about 22,750 acres of state land at the Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area, located along the Saddle Road between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.

The public has expressed overwhelming opposition to renewing the lease, scheduled to expire in 2029. The Army released a draft environmental impact statement in April with five options. The military’s preferred option is to retain some 19,700 acres. The draft EIS noted that some alternatives in the planning documents could adversely affect Hawaiian cultural practices and raise environmental justice issues.

People at the training area often act as first responders when wildfires break out or car accidents happen on the Saddle Road, Roth said. It plays a vital role in the Pacific, where the threat of “World War III” breaking out is greater than most people realize, in his view.

“Being prepared is really important,” the mayor said.

Alameda said the lease needs to change if it’s going to be renewed, noting that the Army paid $1 for its use of the area. The land was once part of the Hawaiian Kingdom but was ceded to the United States in 1898.

Roth agreed that the lease terms need to change to make them equitable to the public.

Decrease In Homelessness?

Roth has taken credit for getting building permits issued much faster and for reducing the numbers of homeless people by 28% in the last federally mandated survey.

But Roth is throwing out misleading statistics that can’t be trusted, Alameda said.

“It’s just verbiage,” he said.

But the mayor said the homeless numbers were generated by the Point In Time Count, an annual survey of people living on the street, or sleeping in cars, parks or elsewhere. It’s conducted across the country in January every year as a requirement for federal funding by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

“The 28% decrease didn’t come from us. It comes from the agencies that Kimo has been working with,” Roth said.  

The 2023 PIT Count on Hawaii Island showed a decrease of 285 people, which represents a 28% year-over-year decline, according to Bridging the Gap , a coalition of agencies working to end homelessness on the neighbor islands.

When the numbers came out in June, Bridging the Gap’s Big Island representative Paul Norman attributed the decline to “unprecedented funding” Hawaii County has allocated to homelessness and affordable housing.

“When donors and funders see our local government has skin in the game, it gives us leverage to attract even more funding for compassionate and effective programs,” said Norman, chair of Community Alliance Partners.

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What are styles?

Most people are used to writing documents according to physical attributes. For example, you might specify the font family, font size and weight (say, Helvetica 12pt, bold).

Styles are logical attributes. We use styles every day. For example, there are two styles of computers: desktop and laptop. Each has its own distinctive set of properties. You never say “my computer is a low-weight, one-piece unit with an LCD screen attached to a rectangular casing containing the computing components and the keyboard". Instead, you say “I have a laptop".

OpenOffice.org styles are a way to do the same thing for your document. Using styles means that you stop saying “font size 14pt, Times New Roman, bold, centered", and you start saying “title". In other words, styles means that you shift the emphasis from what the text looks like, to what the text is .

Why use styles?

OpenOffice.org (OOo) brings a powerful notion of styles. Styles help improve consistency in a document. They also make major formatting changes easy. For example, you may decide to change the indentation of all paragraphs or change the font of all titles. For a long document, this simple task can be prohibitive. Styles make the task easy.

Example: The time is 9:50 A.M. and Jane is finishing the 30-page paper for school that is due at 10:00 A.M. She looks over the assignment one more time, and suddenly she realizes that:

• The text must use Arial font instead of Times New Roman.
• The headings must be dark blue and indented.
• The title must appear at the top-right of every page except the first.
• Even numbered pages must have a wider right margin, and odd numbered pages must have a wider left margin.

Thankfully, Jane used OpenOffice.org and styles. She makes all the changes in two minutes and hands in the paper on time.

Types of styles

OpenOffice.org Writer has five types of styles:

• Paragraph styles affect an entire paragraph.
• Character styles affect a block of text inside a paragraph.
• Page styles affect page formatting (page size, margin, and the like).
• Frame styles affect frames and graphics.
• List styles affect numbered lists and bulleted lists.

The first three styles are the most used. Those are the styles covered in this chapter. Frame styles and list styles are discussed in Chapter 7 (Working with Styles).

These styles are available through a floating window called Styles and Formatting. (Press F11 to see it.) The Styles and Formatting window is discussed in the next section .

Note: Styles and Formatting is a floating window. You can drag it around the screen using the mouse, or you can dock it to the left or right side of the screen.

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What Is a Template?

• What is a Template?
• What Are Styles?
• Applying Styles
• Modifying Styles
• Creating New (Custom) Styles
• Copying and Moving Styles
• Deleting Styles
• Using a Template to Create a Document
• Creating a Template
• Adding Templates using the Extension Manager
• Editing a Template
• Changing the Template Assigned to a Document
• Setting a Default Template
• Organizing templates
• Examples of Style Use

A template is a model document that you use to create other documents. For example, you can create a template for business reports that has your company's logo on the first page and has the fonts, paragraph layout, footer content and any other details needed to meet corporate requirements. New documents created from this template will have a consistent and compliant appearance automatically.

Templates can contain anything that regular documents can contain, such as text, graphics, a set of styles, and user-specific setup information such as measurement units, language, the default printer, and toolbar and menu customization.

All documents in Apache OpenOffice are based on templates. You can create, or download and install, as many templates as you wish, and you can specify a template as the default for each type of document (text, spreadsheet, drawing, presentation). If you do not choose a template when you start a new document, then the new document is based on the default template for that type of document. If you have not specified a default template, Apache OpenOffice uses the blank template for that type of document that is installed with Apache OpenOffice. See " Setting a default template " for more information.

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