<p class="Paragraph"><help:help-text value="visible">Click this icon to access the layer mode for editing slides.</help:help-text> Use this mode to arrange and edit the different drawing elements of a slide. Even when you have several layers, you can still view all drawing elements since the layers are transparent. If necessary, you can deny access to a level, make elements on a level invisible, or determine that a level should not be printed.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To edit the properties of a layer, open the <help:link Id="67153" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><span class="T1">Edit Layer</span></help:link> dialog by double-clicking the tab of the layer to be edited.</p>
<p class="Paragraph"><help:key-word value="invisibilty; of layers" tag="kw67184_3" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><help:key-word value="layers; making invisible" tag="kw67184_2" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/>If you only want to toggle the visibility of objects on a layer, press Shift and click the tab of that layer. The name of the layer is displayed in a distinct manner (e.g., blue or italic) to indicate that the objects there are now invisible. If you select an object, a status bar field will indicate the layer where the object is.</p>