Comments on: Custom Bitmap Background on OpenOffice Impress 2.x

By: Sander

Sander — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:16:59 +0000

OO 3.0 has indeed improved on this kind of stuff, you can now set a background picture doing richtclick=>slide=>set background picture for slide. yay : )

By: Teo

Teo — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:36:29 +0000

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
I don’t know what else to say.
Ah, yeah, I hope OO 3.0 will improve all this kind of stuff.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:49:20 +0000

Thanks man, I was about to give up on this AGAIN.

By: Øyvind Thiem

Øyvind Thiem — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:26:06 +0000

Thanks!
Wonder why this is not to be found on the help pages.

By: David Madl

David Madl — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:55:24 +0000

Thank you very much indeed. The OpenOffice UI just plain sucks. One would need a new open-source project using the existing engine, but creating a better interface…

By: K. geddoe

K. geddoe — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:55:54 +0000

I owe you my freaking life.

By: cLive ;-)

cLive ;-) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:55:16 +0000

You can make it a little easier. Keep steps 1-3 (an irritation), and then:

4) hit f11 (Styles and Formatting)
5) click background, ricght click, select modify
6) choose the bg bitmap as before.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:02:04 +0000

@Anon: strangely, that did NOT work for me!!!!
Okay, it SEEMED to work at first…
But then, when I loaded the file (after saving and closing OOImpress), the BG images were gone!!! AAAAAAAAAAARGH! Give me my time back, OOImpress designers!!!!! You WASTED my time!!

Sorry about the flaming, but I SERIOUSLY considered uninstalling OOo and returning to, ahem, “MS_Office2007_with_CDKey.iso”…

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:15:14 +0000

It is fixed in OpenOffice 2.4 now you can just right click on the slide master “Slide -> Set Background Picture for Slide”.

Anyway, it’s improving all the time, even with simple things like this.

By: biowizard

biowizard — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:02:46 +0000

Btw. If you add picture as written in point 1,2 and 3, there is no need to go to View / Master / Slide Master. Only Slide > Page setup is enough.
But thx Ive also been searching for that for a long time