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Adding background objects

This section describes how to add background objects and graphic

elements (such as a logo, decorative lines, and so on). OOo supports a

large number of picture formats.

Whenever you want the same graphic element to appear on every slide

of your presentation, the easiest and quickest solution is to use the

slide master. Not only it will save time while creating the presentation,

but also when you decide to either modify the graphic element or

reposition it on the slide. If the graphic element was added to each

slide, the same operations would have to be performed on each

individual slide of the presentation.

One of the most common activities when preparing a presentation is to

add a picture to the slide master. To insert a picture already available

on the hard disk, follow these steps:

1) Choose View > Master > Slide Master from the menu bar.

2) Select from the menu bar Insert > Picture > From File.

3) Navigate to the directory where your picture is and select it. If

you want to see a preview, select the corresponding checkbox in

the file browser dialog box.

Caution

OOo offers the option to insert a picture as a link to the file

rather than embedding it in the document. This can be useful

when a presentation is not intended to be distributed elsewhere,

and where it will remain in the same hierarchical directory

structure. For example, it could be created on a notebook

computer, from which the presentation will be given to, typically,

a group of clients.

If the presentation file is to be distributed, however, the picture

should be embedded to avoid the “missing picture” syndrome

when the presentation is finally given on a different computer.

Once the picture is inserted, you may need to reposition it and modify

its size. How to do that is explained in Chapter 4 (Adding and

Formatting Pictures).

Tip

If you want the image to blend with the background, you can set

the background color of the picture as transparent. Select the

picture, then chose Tools > Eyedropper from the menu bar.

Check the first checkbox and then move the mouse on the picture

and click on the color you would like to make transparent. This

color appears next to the checkbox. Make sure that

Replace

with...

is set to Transparent and click Replace.

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