Advanced Presentations – Audience and Environment
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Design, Content and Layout
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Insert Slide Masters
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Edit Slide Master
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Templates
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Formatting Drawn Objects
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Formatting Pictures, Images
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Handling Graphical Objects
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, … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Using Charts
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Changing Charts
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Using Diagrams
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Movies and Sound
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Animation
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Hyperlinks
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Instant Action Button
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Link Data Into A Slide
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Link An Image From A File
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Embed Data Into A Slide
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Edit, Delete Embedded Data.
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Importing
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Exporting
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Custom Shows
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Slide Show Settings
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, … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations – Slide Show Control
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 … Take lesson
Advanced Presentations Quiz
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 … Take lesson
