I could be barking up the wrong tree, but I need a starting point. HW: Dell Latitude C610 (1.2GHz/256MB) Vid Res: 1024x768 OS: SUSE Linux OSS (10.0-beta 4) OOo: 1.9.125.1 (2.o-pre) I have created a couple of Impress shows, and when I run them on my laptop, the slides run off the right side of the screen. If the text is short enough, it's no problem. But text taking up most of a single line, or spanning multiple lines causes a problem. Things look perfectly normal in the Normal View, where I create the slides. IOW, the text is not running off the right side when I'm in the Normal View. I don't seem to have this problem with KOffice, but prefer to use OOo. I also noticed that the background I used (circles-classic) seemed to change. The size of the circles in the lower right portion of the background - appear much smaller than I think they should be, based on the normal view. Any ideas on what might be happening? Thanks, Don