Advanced Presentations Lesson

Understand how audience demography (age, educational level, occupation, cultural background) and knowledge of subject impacts on planning of a presentation. Whenever we are planning a presentation, it is very important to take into account the different aspects about our target audience. The age, educational level, occupation, cultural background and the knowledge of subject should all…

Understand timing considerations, tailor content to time available and allow appropriate time interval for each slide. While planning a presentation, it is very important to keep a tab on the time available to present the entire presentation. For example, if the time available is going to be quite a lot, you can have a bigger…

Insert a new slide master, new title master. In Impress, a slide master is a slide that is used as the starting point for other slides. It controls the basic formatting of all slides which are based on it. A slide show can have more than one slide master. A slide master has a defined…

Edit slide master layouts like: font, bulleted list format, background colour and fill effects, placeholder position, placeholder deletion. In Impress, it is possible to edit a slide master after it has been created. The different layouts in a slide master like font, bulleted list formats, background colors or fill effects and placeholders can be edited…

Create a new template, theme. A template is simply a format based on which a new presentation will get created in Impress. There are a number of templates which are already present in Impress and if we want to have our own template or make changes to one of the existing ones then this can…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

Change the chart type for a defined data series. In order to change the chart type of a chart which has been created for a defined data series, first of all we need to select the chart by double-clicking on it. The chart will become surrounded by a grey border upon selection. After selecting the…

Create using built- in options or other available drawing tools a diagram like: flowchart, cycle, pyramid. To create a diagram in Impress, click on ‘Insert’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Media’ and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Clip Art Gallery’. This will open the ‘Gallery’ section…

Insert movies to play automatically, on mouse click. In LibreOffice Impress, we can insert a movie clip into a slide. To insert a movie clip, simply click on the ‘Insert Audio or Video’ place holder from the main slide area as has been shown in the below given illustration. This opens the ‘Insert Audio or…

Change custom animation effects and settings. Change sequence of custom animations in a slide. Custom animations are applied to individual slide elements like charts, graphics, titles, bullet points etc. We apply slide animation from ‘Normal View’ so that each element on the slide can be selected. Once applied, the custom animations can also be changed.…

Insert, edit, and remove a hyperlink. Hyperlinks are used to jump to a different location from within a presentation and this location can be in the same file, in different files and also some websites. To insert a hyperlink, click on ‘Insert’ from the main menu bar, and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on…

Insert an action button. Modify settings to navigate to a specified slide, custom show, file, URL. An action button in Impress is a button which is used to perform some sort of action. This action can be navigating to specified slides, or navigating to a particular file or even a URL. To insert an action…

Link data into a slide and display as an object, icon. One of the most amazing features of Impress is that it enables us to link data into a presentation and then display the data as an object. This means that we can insert any form of data, say a spreadsheet or a chart or…

Insert an image from a file with a link to the file. Impress offers us a number of very useful functionalities. Say we need to insert a link to a file in a slide. Now we need to include an image in the slide which will contain the link to the file, to make the…

One of the most amazing features of Impress is that it enables us to embed data into a presentation as an object. This means that we can insert any form of data, say a spreadsheet or a chart or a drawing or any other type, into a presentation as an object and then work with…

As we saw in the last section, there are two ways to embed a data object into an Impress presentation. To create a new data object or to embed an existing file as a data object. To edit or delete embedded data for a newly created data object, we simply need to double-click on the…

Merge slide(s), a complete presentation into an existing presentation. Merging two presentations together means that the common portion in the two presentations will be retained and the differences between the two will get added to the one which is being used as the base so that the resulting presentation contains all the features of both…

Save a specified slide as a file format: gif, jpeg, bmp. In Impress, it is possible to save an individual slide as a separate file. To save a particular impress slide as a specified file format, first of all open the slide which needs to be saved. After this, click on ‘File’ from the main…

Create, show a named custom slide show. A custom slide show can be used to show all or only some specific slides of a presentation in a user defined order. As many custom slide shows can be defined from one set of slides as are required. In a custom slide show, you can select which…

Apply timings to, remove timings from slide transitions. In Impress, we can set up a slide show to run automatically. To set the default time for slides to be displayed before changing to the next slide, in the Tasks pane, select ‘Slide Transition’. This will open the ‘Slide Transition’ dialog box. In this dialog, leave…

Add, erase pen annotations during a slide show. In Impress, we can use pen annotations during a slide show to explain the different slides more effectively. This means that during a slide show, we can make our mouse pointer to work as a pen which can be used to highlight the different portions of a…

This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the contents of the Advanced Presentations Course, part of the Office Software Suite series. These quizzes are designed to improve your Presentation skills. There are twenty questions. The pass mark is 70 out of a potential 100 points, 5 for each question. Once you are satisfied…