Archive for December 2016

Format chart title, legend, data labels, axes labels. In order to format any of the chart properties, first of all we need to select the chart by double clicking on it, and then right click on the chart area. This gives a menu from which ‘Insert Titles’ can be selected. This gives a ‘Titles’ dialog…

Display, hide grid and guides. Grid and guide lines are a couple of Impress tools which help in determining the exact position of an object in a slide. Grid displays a set of small dotted squares all over the slide, which give us the exact position of an object relative to another object. The guide…

Adjust picture, image brightness and contrast. In Impress, we can adjust the brightness and contrast of an Image as per the requirements of the presentation. To adjust the image brightness or contrast, first of all select the image. This displays the image toolbar right above the main slide area. In this toolbar, click once on…

Apply background fill effects to a drawn object. Any drawn object in LibreOffice Impress can be given a background fill effect of choice. To apply background fill effect to a drawn object, right-click on the object, and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Area’. This will display the ‘Area’ dialog box. In this dialog box,…