Advanced Presentations

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…