Module 6: Open Office Impress/Creating Slides/Subsection 2 Presentation Templates

Creating a Presentation from a Template
You can use the AutoPilot to create a new presentation based on an existing presentation template.

To create a new presentation based on a pre-designed template:


 * Choose File New Presentation from the menu bar.
 * On the AutoPilot Presentation dialogue box, click on the From Template radio button.
 * Click the Next button to display the second screen of the wizard. This is where you can define the slide design.



If Presentations is selected, Secondary choices include:
 * Click on the drop-down button to select “Presentations.”
 * Select the presentation template as the secondary choice to be used in the presentation. The
 * Presentations choices contain pre-written slide content.


 * 1) Introducing a New Product and
 * 2) Recommendation of a Strategy.
 * Click the Next button to display the third screen of the wizard.

Selecting a slide transition and presentation type



 * Under Select a Slide Transition, click in the drop-down area to select any of the 57 available Effect transitions. The white area of the screen provides an illustration of the each effect as you scroll through the available choices.
 * Under Select a Slide Transition, click in the drop-down area to select the Speed of the slide transition (Slow, Medium, or Fast).
 * Under Select the presentation type, select either Default or Automatic to define whether the presenter will manually advance slides in the presentation (default), or whether the slides will automatically advance based on Duration of page and Duration of pause timing definitions.
 * Click the Create button to create the presentation and display the Modify Slide dialogue box.
 * Click the Next button to display the fourth screen of the wizard.

Provide basic information:


 * Type information in each of the three questions displayed on the screen: 1) What is your name or the name of your company, 2) What is the subject of your presentation?, and 3) Further ideas to be presented.
 * Click the Next button to display the fifth screen of the wizard.

Choose your pages:




 * The presentation comes with seven pre-written slides. All slides that contain a checkmark in the Choose your pages area will be included in the new presentation. Uncheck any slides that you do not want to include in the presentation.
 * Click the Create button to create the presentation and display the first slide in Drawing View.

Selecting the slide design

 * Click in the Select a slide design drop-down button to select either "Presentations" or "Presentation Backgrounds."

Select a secondary choice to use in the presentation. The topics displayed in that selection area, beneath the Select a slide design field, are dependent on what you have selected in the Select a slide design field. The Presentation Background choices are visually-formatted templates. The Presentation choices contain pre-written slide content. If Presentation Backgrounds is selected,

Secondary choices include:

Dark Blue With Orange Subtle Accents If Presentations is selected,

Secondary choices include:

Introducing a New Product Recommendation of a Strategy




 * Click the Next button to display the third screen of the wizard.