Presentations

Enter text into a placeholder in standard, outline view. To enter text into a slide, simply click once in the text area. This will give a blinking text pointer in the text area. Now use the keys on your keyboard to enter the text values. This is how we can enter text into an Impress…

Recognize good practice in creating slide content: use short concise phrases, bullet points, numbered lists. When we create a presentation, the content added in the slide should be short and precise. This helps in creating self-explanatory slides. Impress application supports various methods to follow good practice in creating slides like using bullet points or numbered…

We can add text into the slides in Impress using the ‘Text Box’. There are two ways for adding text into the slides: we can either choose a predefined layout for the text boxes for the slides from the ‘Tasks Pane’, these layouts are known as ‘Auto-Layout Text Box’, or we can insert a text…

The slide which is used as the starting point for all other slides is known as a Master slide. A slide master has defined characteristics including background color, graphics, headers-footers, placement and size of text frames, and formatting of the text. Any new slide we create has all the characteristics of the master slide. If…

Copy, move slides within the presentation, between open presentations. To copy a slide within a presentation, select the slide you want to copy from the slides pane, and then drag and drop that slide to the desired location within the presentation. Similarly, to move a slide, right-click on the desired slide from the slides pane…

Change background color on specific slide(s), all slides. To change the background of a slide or of all the slides, click on ‘Format’ from the main menu bar, and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Page’. This will open the ‘Page Setup’ dialog box. In this dialog box, under the ‘Background’ tab, we have the…

Choose a different built-in slide layout for a slide. A built-in slide layout defines the layout for a slide. A layout means the number and order of the different types of elements that are going to be present in a slide. In the ‘Tasks’ pane, all the built-in slide layouts are present. In order to…

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…