Re: [libreoffice-users] Editing Impress Master Slides

On 10/24/2020 11:12 AM, Michael H wrote:
> I think what you want is "clear direct formatting." In LO 6.3 this is 
> on the right-click menu for each object in a page, but it doesn't show 
> up when you have multiple objects selected, and it doesn't show up 
> when you select the page on the page browser.
>
> It would be nice if 'clear local overrides' was programmable to a key 
> in 'customize keyboard' but I don't see it there.
Thank you for the suggestion, but I don't think it works on my problem. 
When I right click on a text box on a slide and then click "Clear Direct 
Formatting" it clears the formatting of the text itself (boldface, 
italics, etc.), but it doesn't seem to have any effect on the geometry 
of the text box that holds the text. When I edit a master slide, usually 
what I am editing is the layout, meaning the placement and size of text 
boxes on the slide. When I apply the edited master slide to all slides, 
there are always some slides that don't accept the changes, while others 
do.

I have tested this on several different slide presentation files, 
starting from scratch in each case. I have been careful *not* to apply 
any direct changes to text box geometry on individual slides before 
editing the master slide. Even so, after editing the master slide, the 
changes are never applied to all slides in a presentation and clicking 
"Clear Direct Formatting" doesn't seem to help.

Virgil





> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:06 PM Cuyahoga Falls <cuyfalls@hotmail.com 
> <mailto:cuyfalls@hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     As a college professor, I use slide presentations daily. I have
>     used a
>     variety of solutions including LaTeX/Beamer, Markdown/Slidy, and
>     LO Impress.
>
>     Impress is obviously very full-featured and easy to use with its
>     WYSIWYG
>     user interface. However, I have been bothered by what appears to be a
>     strange behavior in Impress.
>
>     There are times when, after creating a slide presentation with 15
>     to 20
>     slides, I find I need to edit something globally, such as the size or
>     shape of a text box on the slides. To do this, I go into the
>     appropriate
>     Master Slide and make my changes. I then click to apply the Master
>     Slide
>     to all slides, but then when I go back into the slide presentation, I
>     find that my changes are only applied to some, but not all of the
>     slides. I then find myself having to go into each slide to reapply
>     the
>     same changes on a slide-by-slide basis that I had tried to apply
>     globally by changing the Master Slide.
>
>     I'm finding that, when working with Impress, I have to carefully
>     design
>     all of my slide formatting *before* composing my content, because
>     if I
>     have to change formatting later, I have no assurance that the changes
>     will take effect globally. This is obviously the opposite of the
>     behavior in LaTeX or Markdown, where the formatting can be
>     designed at
>     any point in the process with predictable results.
>
>     Has anyone else noticed this behavior? Is this a bug, or can anyone
>     suggest anything I might do differently?
>
>     I am currently using LO 6.3.4.2 on Windows 10, but I have noticed
>     this
>     behavior for years on a variety of LO versions on both Windows and
>     Linux.
>
>     Virgil
>
>
>
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