I am working on a presentation that uses slightly different design on every slide, most notably the use of a differently-colored drop shadow to match the background image of the slide. Every single time I make a new slide and change the shadow color (the only way to do this as far as I know is in the “edit style” window) I go back to find that three or four carefully set up text boxes on previous slides now have the wrong colored drop shadow. I have sort of survived by making new styles on every slide but to do that you have to DELETE AND RECREATE the text boxes that are automatically created or else they will be assigned to title and body styles without letting you change them. It’s getting pretty infuriating at this point and I want to know if I can stop it.
In short: don’t use LibreOffice, because styles are a key concept.
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But if you know other software the “feature” may not named “style” but do the same. If it is a template, page settings etc. - the software needs a place to store the settings for a page and in your case for every page separate. As this is NOT the typical setting for office software you have more work to do then other users:
For every page you need a new style, if they really differ. You may use a hierarchical approach, if there are common elements. But start page 54 with creating style54 instead of using style53
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If every page really is completely unrelated I’d consider using an paint/draw-software to create individual pages an either combine this to a pdf or, for presentation just import the external “paintings” as full-page illustrations.
Hi,
don’t change the colors in the styles but in the properties (hard formatting). You can do it by using the wrench in the side pane. Usually hard formatting is a no-go in LibreOffice (see @Wanderer’s answer), but in your (rare!) case it can be the remedy for unwanted changes in properties after central styles have been altered…
See my screenshot and sample file.
DropShadow.odp (27.0 KB)
HTH