97. Add a Presentation Header and Footer
81 Create a New Presentation 103 Create Presentation Handouts You must add headers and footers to your slides through the master slide (see 87 About Impress Views ). Each header and footer is saved in the presentation's master slide so that the header and footer (you can have one or the other or both) reside on all slides throughout your presentation. You cannot add a different header or footer on different slides, although you can hide the header or footer from individual slides.You may add the date, time, or slide number (referred to as the page number ) in a header or footer area. When that slide appears during your presentation, the current date or time at that moment appears in the header or footer area.
1. | Change the View Technically, Impress does not support headers and footers (except in Handouts view). You can, however, use text boxes to insert text at the top or bottom of your slides that acts just like Writer, Calc, or Base headers and footers. To add a text box, you must work in Normal, Notes , or Handout view. You'll generally find it's easier to work in Normal view because you'll have a larger view of the slide. NOTEThis task refers to text that appears at the top or bottom of every slide in the presentation as header and footer text , even though such text is just normal text in these particular locations. 102 Add Notes to a Presentation for more information on working with headers and footers in Handout view.Click the upper-left corner of your footer's (or header's) text box and drag your mouse down and to the right to draw the text box. When you release your mouse button, Impress places the text box in that position and inserts the text cursor inside it so you can type the header or footer text. |
4. | Type the Footer Text Type the text that you want to appear in the footer (or header). If you want to display the time or date, you may want to insert a field instead of a text box. Generally, you'll want to insert the date or time that's current when you give your presentation, so select Insert, Fields, Date (variable) or Time (variable) to insert either the variable date or variable time . (In a similar manner, you can insert a fixed date or fixed time also.) Click the Close Master View button on the Master View toolbar to return to the previous view. KEY TERMSVariable date The current presentation date as opposed to the fixed date.Variable time The current presentation time as opposed to the fixed time.Fixed date The date you created the slide as opposed to the variable date.Fixed time The time you created the slide as opposed to the variable time.94 Change a Presentation's Background for more information on adjusting the background elements in a presentation. |