Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 72931
duplicate of master slides should be possible.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:20:06 UTC
Currently users cannot copy elements from master templates in Impress. This makes it difficult to replicate formatting/text between two master templates. Steps to reproduce: 1) Create a new Impress presentation. 2) Go to View->Master->Slide Master. 3) Create a new master template (either right-click on the slide sidebar & select 'new master' or go to Insert->New Slide). 4) Select anything on the page and try to copy it. This will result in an information dialog appearing with the message: "This function cannot be run with the selected objects." This problem has been encountered in OOo 2.0.3 on Gentoo Linux (32 bit running on amd64) and OOo 2.1.0 on Windows 2000.
Confirming with OO m197 on WinXP.
Reassigned.
This is not a bug but a feature. It is not possible to copy the Title or the Outline text objects and that's correct. It's not allowed to have several of this objects on the slide master. But nevertheless this is a good idea. It should be possible to duplicate a master slide. You need such a feature to create several master slides which are similar but not exactly the same for one document. I change the title.
While copying entire master slides would be useful, you currently cannot copy anything from from a master slide. This means that if you have formatted a title or bullet and want to replicate it on another existing master you would have to do it manually.
set target from 2.x to 3.x according to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x
For a simple presentation that has a title slide different from the rest, a second master slide ist required. That is probably a use case appearing fro most(!) of the users of Impress. The lack, therefore, of a function to at least make a copy of a master slide is essential -- especially in the light that the whole master slide concept in Impress is -- compared to all the excellent template mechanism in Writer -- is really very hard to use and practically a show-stopper (unless one is willing to learn about all current inconsistencies and their workarounds). What I want to suggest is to move the target to 3.0 for making a simple "copy master slide" button available; as a workaround until the master slide concept gets fundementally fixed. Thank you, digisus
This is duplicate to issue 55634 and to issue 70587. I took issue 70587 because it has already status "new" and has got more votes than issue 55634. Please move your votes. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 70587 ***
Closing, because duplicate.