Bug 167912 - Add command to reset slide customizations compared to its master slide
Summary: Add command to reset slide customizations compared to its master slide
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Master-Slide
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Reported: 2025-08-11 22:36 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2025-08-11 22:36 UTC (History)
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Example Impress file with several customizations (35.41 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation)
2025-08-11 22:36 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2025-08-11 22:36:48 UTC
Created attachment 202287 [details]
Example Impress file with several customizations

When a slide is heavily customized compared to its master slide, the user does not have a simple option to undo all the customizations - apart from inserting a new slide and copy-pasting the most important content there, then removing the first slide.

1. Open attached document
2. The first slide is based on the Focus template, with customized text boxes, text/paragraph formatting and bullet/numbering formatting inside these boxes.
-> There is no simple command to undo all these changes and reset the text box positions/sizes to those in the master slide; similarly to reset font/paragraph/B&N customizations.
3. The second slide is made as a new slide without customizations, the goal would be to create a similar look starting from the first one.

Possibly a new Slide -> Clear slide formatting command (similar to Clear Direct Formatting, but for all shapes and all text on the current slide) could do all these.
Potentially the slide background set with Slide -> Set Background Image could also be reset.