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The fields you can use in Impress are:

• Date (fixed).

• Date (variable) —updates automatically when you reload the file.

• Time (fixed).

• Time (variable)—updates automatically when you reload the file

• Author—First and last names listed in the OpenOffice.org user

data.

• Page number (slide number).

• File name.

Tip

To change the number format (1,2,3 or a,b,c or i,ii,iii, etc.) for

the page number field, choose Format > Page and then select a

format from the list in the Layout Settings area.

To change the author information, go to Tools > Options >

OpenOffice.org > User Data.

Working with styles

This section describes how to create, modify, apply and delete styles in

Impress. If you are familiar with styles in Writer, you will find both

similarities and differences in Impress. The presentation styles are

similar to paragraph styles in Writer and are used in a very similar

fashion. You cannot create new presentation styles but you can fully

configure the existing ones. Note that, as for the Heading styles in

Writer, the Outline styles are hierarchically linked, so a change in the

Outline 1 will cascade through all the other Outline levels.

In Impress you will also find the graphic styles very useful. As the

name suggests, graphic styles define the characteristics of a graphic

object (including a text object). If, for example, you need to create a

organization chart diagram in one of the slides of your presentation,

you will surely want all the boxes to have consistent appearance,

meaning same line style, same font type, maybe same shadow and so

on. The easiest way to achieve this result with the minimum effort is to

create a graphic style for the boxes and apply it to each box. The major

benefit is that if later on you decide to modify, say, the background

color of the boxes, all you need to do is modify the style.

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