Thanks to those who attended the talk earlier tonight. For anyone who is interested, here are the slides of the talk which lasted about 2 hours. There was also video footage taken, but the quality may be too low. We'll find out soon.

"It's nice to actually feel welcome, because, for many years I was like the boogey man at conferences. People would come and present their software and they'd show what new features they'd coded in the last year, and then I'd come along and say soffftwaaaare paaatents. I'd have to tell everyone to be scared."

An area in Impress can be an object or a selected region on the page. As an example open a new presentation and then add a 3D square to the page. While the object is highlighted choose Format-Area. When the dialog box opens you will see a lot of options are available, more than for the page format.