Is it possible to combine slides into groups?

[Evgeniy]

Is it possible to combine slides into groups? For example:

Introduction slides:
> slide 1
> slide 2
Section 1 slides:
> slide 1
> slide 2
> slide 3
> slide 4
Section 2 slides:
> slide 1
> slide 2
> slide 3
.. etc.

[Zizi64]

Do you want to apply different styles for the sections? Or what is the reason of this method, what do you mean as "section" or "group"?

[Evgeniy]

Just merge slides into groups such as sections in a book.

Like here for example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGfwcUYuPNQ

[Zizi64]

Just merge slides into groups such as sections in a book.

Why?

The Impress document is a sequential slide serie. You can stop the playing, timing the slides if you want a gap between some groups of slides. I can not understand what is the point of your desired solution.

[RoryOF]

I can understand why one might think this desirable - One might wish to show a process, then the modification of it in a number of steps. Immediately I can think of a method - show the main slide, then animate the image(s) off, flying in new images as required. So instead of a group, one has a complex animated slide.

Investigation of the OpenOffice API might reveal slide characteristics that could be used to group discrete slides; I have not investigated the API for such characteristics.

[Evgeniy]

It would be so comfortable for me. You can of course write in each slide name: Title.Slide1, Title.Slide2, Title.Slide3, Part1.Slide1, Part1.Slide2 etc. But it would be easier to divide the slides into groups.

In general there is no.

[RoryOF]

Title your slides in reverse:

Sausages_Overview
Sausages_Making_Stuffing
Sausages_Filling
Sausages_Cooking
Sausages_Eating

i.e., with the grouping keyword as the first word of the title and the ordering as the second or later keyword - consistency in naming will help.

It might be possible to group slides with a macro; it is certainly possible to group them to make a Custom Slide show; consideration of the low-level methods of doing this might allow another grouping, or, concatenation of a number of Custom slide shows, in each of which slides of a particular limited grouping were arranged. This could be an interesting project for someone who needed it.