How to Save a Slide Background as a Graphic in Open Office
Open Office is the open source competitor of Microsoft Office. It provides a number of productivity options that are comparable to Microsoft counterparts. Among these options is Open Office Impress, which can produce slide show presentations similar to Microsoft Powerpoint. Impress includes a number of different template and editing options,including the options of setting your own image or a template image as the slide background. A situation may arise where you wish to export this background as an image file. Fortunately, it is possible to do so.
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Instructions
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Double-click on your Open Office Impress document to open it in Impress.
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Scroll through your list of slides in the left column, then click on your desired slide to select it.
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Delete any objects covering the background image, such as text boxes or other images. When you are done, there should be nothing on the slide but the background image.
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Click "File" at the top of the screen, then scroll to the "Export" option.
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Select a file location for your image, and type a name in the field next to "File Name".
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Click the drop-down menu next to "Save as type" and select the "JPEG" option. Depending on your needs, you can also choose from any of the other image file formats that are available, such as .bmp, .gif, .png or .tiff.
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Click the gray "Save" file to create your image.
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Tips & Warnings
Impress can also export your slides to many other types of files, such as a Powerpoint file, HTML, PDF or other types of image files, like a .gif or .png. Once the image has been saved, you can press "Ctrl+Z" repeatedly until all of the original slide elements have been restored.
