Advanced Presentations

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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,…