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Deleting slides. You can quickly delete a slide by right-clicking on its tab and selecting Delete from the contextual menu. Alternatively, from the main menu, select Edit → Delete Slide.
Moving slides around. The easiest way to move slides around within a presentation is to simply click, drag, and drop the tab of any slide into a new sequence among the tabs.
The presentation palette
Pressing the icon at the far right of the object bar opens the floating presentation palette, where you can execute functions quickly when building or editing your presentation. Functions include Insert Slide, Modify Slide Layout, Slide Design, Duplicate Slide, and Expand Slide. To turn off the presentation palette, click the icon again.
Putting on a slide show
Having created a presentation, putting on a slide show is a trivial undertaking. Press F9 to start the slide show and the Esc key to end.
Slides how transitions . To set the transition for a single slide, select Slide Show → Slide Transition from the main menu. Figure 8-30 shows the transition options available.
You can choose a slow, medium, or fast transition speed in the drop-down menu at the bottom of the Slide Transition window.
If you favor using a single kind of slide transition throughout your whole presentation, it's most efficient to set this up for all slides at the same time using AutoPilot when you first start building a presentation.
Custom slide shows . You can set up many different versions of the same presentation using only chosen slides and different settings. This is convenient for adapting different parts of one large presentation to specific audiences. You can also use it to pre-configure versions of a presentation that present increased detail, to which you can switch spontaneously during a presentation to cover some more intricate points that you would otherwise spare a general audience.
To define a new custom slide show, from the main menu of your live source presentation select Slide Show → Custom Slide Show, which opens the Custom Slide Shows dialog (Figure 8-31), where you should press the New button.
Figure 8-30. The Slide Transition window
Figure 8-31. The Custom Slide Show dialog
This opens the Define Custom Slide Show dialog (Figure 8-32) where you can name the new version of your slide show and select which slides are to be included. To select a given slide for inclusion, highlight that slide in the "Existing slides" pane at the lefthand side of the dialog. Then, click the uppermost of the two arrow buttons and your chosen slide will be entered into the "Selected slides" pane at the righthand side of the dialog.
Figure 8-32. The Define Custom Slide Show dialog
Customizing OpenOffice
A couple of quick settings can save you a lot of time, depending on your needs.
Adding a Launcher icon
You can add an icon to launch either OpenOffice with no module or OpenOffice with any specific module ready to go.
We cover the procedure for adding an OOoWriter Launcher icon to the desktop or edge panel in the OOo Writer section "Adding an OOoWriter icon on the desktop or taskbar panel," earlier in this chapter. The procedure for adding OOoCalc or OOoImpress icons is analogous.
Defaulting to the MS Office file formats
To set OOoWriter to automatically save files in the MS Word .doc file format, select Tools → Options, then choose Load/Save in the left index of the Options dialog. In the index under Load/Save, click on General. This opens the Options-Load/Save-General dialog. Here, in the "Standard file format" section, your "Document type" drop-down is already set on "Text document." Leave that as is. In the "Always save as" drop-down at right, change the selection to one of the three available MS Word versions:
Microsoft Word 6.0
Microsoft Word 95
Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP
Click the OK button. Use your best discretion when choosing a version. Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP has the most users at large;