Archive for March 2016

Recognize good practice in adding slide titles: use a different title for each slide to distinguish it in outline view, when navigating in slide show view. When we create a new slide in Impress, we need to add a title for the slide. There are a number of points which should always be considered while…

Understand the uses of different presentation view modes: normal view, outline view, handout view, notes view, slide sorter view. Impress offers us different views to work on our slides and presentations. These views can be used to understand the slide structures in a presentation in different ways. The main view in which we create individual…

Set user preferences in the application: user name, default folder to open and save files. To set the basic options in the Impress application, click on ‘Tools’ from the main menu bar. From the resulting drop-down, click on ‘Options’. This will open the ‘Options’ dialog box. In the ‘Options’ dialog box, under ‘LibreOffice’, in ‘User…

You can open multiple presentations at a time in Impress. In such a case, to switch between these presentations, just click on the ‘Impress’ icon on the task bar of your computer. This icon will always get displayed whenever you are running Impress on your machine. When this icon is clicked, then the names of…

A default template is the one, which is used to create a presentation when any new presentation is created. This means that when we create a new presentation, it gets created based on the default template which has been set. We are going to learn how to set a default template in the subsequent chapters.…

Open, close a presentation application. Open, close presentations. To start Impress, click on the ‘Start’ button on your Windows machine. Click on ‘All Programs’ and then go to the ‘LibreOffice’ folder in the list of all programs which gets displayed. Click on the ‘LibreOffice’ folder and then click on ‘LibreOffice Impress’. This will start the…