Customizing Menu Content

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Impress Guide

Chapter 11: Setting Up and Customizing Impress

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• Choosing Options That Affect All of AOO
  • User Data Options
  • Print Options
  • Color Options
  • Appearance Options
• Choosing Options for Impress
  • General Options
    • Text Objects Section
    • New Document Section
    • Settings Section
    • Start Presentation Section
    • Compatibility Section
  • View Options
  • Grid Options
    • Grid Section
    • Resolution Section
    • Snap Section
    • Snap Position Section
  • Print Options
• Customizing the User Interface
  • Customizing the Menu Font
  • Customizing Menu Content
    • Creating a New Menu
    • Modifying Existing Menus
    • Adding a Command to a Menu
    • Modifying Menu Entries
  • Customizing Toolbars
    • Creating a New Toolbar
    • Adding a Command to a Toolbar
    • Choosing Icons for Toolbar Commands
  • Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Saving Changes to a File
    • Loading a Saved Keyboard Configuration
    • Resetting the Shortcut Keys
    • Running Macros from Key Combinations
• Adding Functionality with Extensions
  • Installing Extensions

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Customizing Menu Content

You can customize menus: add and rearrange items on the menu bar, add items to menus, and make other changes.

1. Choose Tools → Customize.
2. On the Customize dialog, pick the Menus tab (Figure 218).

Figure 218. The Menus tab of the Customize dialog

1. In the Save In drop-down list, choose whether to save this changed menu for Impress or for a selected document (for example, MySlideShow.odp).
2. In the section OpenOffice Impress Menus, select the menu you want to customize from the Menu drop-down list.
3. To customize the selected menu, click on the  Menu  or  Modify  buttons. You can also add commands to a menu by clicking on the  Add  button. These actions are described in the following sections. Use the up and down arrows next to the Entries list to move the selected menu item to a different position.
4. When you have finished making all your changes, click  OK  to save them.