Using Design Templates

Using Design Templates
	Chapter 2. Developing a Presentation

Abstract

Create and use templates for consitency

Design templates are predefined formats for presentations. To use this feature you make use of an Autopilot. They may be used to create a presentation from scratch or they may be applied to an existing presentation.

Apply an available design template to a presentation

File ->Autopilot->Presentation.

Page 1 of the Autopilot is displayed.

If you wished to create a new presentation from scratch you would click Empty presentation and proceed.

In this case you will use a design template to create a new presentation.

Click From template.
Select Introducing a new product.
Click Next.
Select an Output medium, for example, Screen.
Select a Slide design.
Click Next.
Select a transition Effect.
Select a transition Speed.

You can also set whether you need to manually move to the next slide or whether this must be automatic. This is the Presentation type. If you select Automatic, you can also set the Duration each slide is displayed.

Select a Presentation type.
Click Next.
Fill in additional information and notes about the presentation.
Click Next.

The Design template comes with a number of pages.

Leave the ones you want and deselect the others.
Click Create.

The presentation will be created.

Each of the pages has an appropriate layout.
All you have to now do is fill in the detail on each page as you did when you inserted a new slide using a standard layout.

	Note
	At any stage in the creation of a presentation using Autopilot you may click Create. Impress will then use its default settings from that point on. The settings you use each time become the default settings for Autopilot.

Change between available design templates

You may use the design template of another presentation to change the design of the current slide.

In this example, the design of a slide in the Andromeda presentation will be changed to the design used in the NewProduct presentation.

Open the Andromeda presentation.
Go to slide 2, Features.
Format->Styles->Slide Design.
Click Load.
Select Presentations in Category.
Select Introducing a New Product in Templates.
Click OK.
Click on the design and Click OK.

The two following screens show the second slide before and after the application of the new design.

	Note
You have to be in Drawing view in order to use this feature: View->Workspace->Drawing View. You cannot apply the new design to more than one slide at a time.

Note

You have to be in Drawing view in order to use this feature: View->Workspace->Drawing View.

You cannot apply the new design to more than one slide at a time.

	Note
	If you are unhappy with the result, you can use Edit->Undo: Presentation Layout to revert to the original layout.