Understanding Presentations Lessons

Working with Presentations

Open, close a presentation application. Open, close presentations. To start Impress, click on the ‘Start’ button on your Windows machine. Click on ‘All Programs’ and then go to the ‘LibreOffice’ folder in the list of all programs which gets displayed. Click on the ‘LibreOffice’ folder and then click on ‘LibreOffice Impress’. This will start the…

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Create a new presentation based on default template.

A default template is the one, which is used to create a presentation when any new presentation is created. This means that when we create a new presentation, it gets created based on the default template which has been set. We are going to learn how to set a default template in the subsequent chapters.…

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Switch between open presentations.

You can open multiple presentations at a time in Impress. In such a case, to switch between these presentations, just click on the ‘Impress’ icon on the task bar of your computer. This icon will always get displayed whenever you are running Impress on your machine. When this icon is clicked, then the names of…

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Understanding Presentations – Enhancing Productivity

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Presentation Views

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Adding Slide Titles

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Slides

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Change background color

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Copy, move, delete slides

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Master Slide

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Handling Text

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Good Practice

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Enter Text

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…

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Understanding Presentations – Delete, Undo, Redo Text

Delete text. The text can be deleted by simply selecting the unwanted text and pressing the ‘Delete’ button on your keyboard. Another method is to place the text pointer to the right of the text which needs to be deleted and then press the ‘backspace’ button from the keyboard. This will delete the text backwards.…

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Understanding Presentations – Formatting Text

Change text formatting: font sizes, font types. To change the font size and the font type of the text in a presentation, right-click anywhere on the text area and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Character’. This will open the ‘Character’ dialog box. In this dialog box, under the ‘Fonts’ tab, we have the ‘Size’…

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Understanding Presentations – Lists

Indent bulleted text. Remove indent from bulleted text. Indentation helps in defining the amount of space to be made available to the right and to the left side of the page. Indentation can be done by selecting ‘Format’ option from the main menu bar. Now select ‘Paragraph’ from the drop down list which gets displayed.…

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Understanding Presentations – Tables

Tables are very effective in conveying structured information. Table in a slide can be inserted by clicking on ‘Insert’ in the main menu bar and selecting ‘Table’ from the drop down list which gets displayed. After this, a dialog box appears, in which we can select the ‘Number of rows’ and the ‘Number of columns’…

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Understanding Presentations – Charts

Create built-in charts in a presentation: column, bar, line, pie. In Impress, we can represent our data with the help of different graphical representations like column chart, bar chart, line chart, or pie chart. This makes the data more presentable and also easier to comprehend. To create the different types of charts in Impress, simply…

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Understanding Presentations – Using Charts

Add data labels to a chart: values/numbers, percentages. To add data labels to a chart, select the chart by double clicking on it. After selecting the chart, click on ‘Insert’ button from the main menu bar and then click on ‘Data Labels’ from the resulting drop down menu. This will open the ‘Data Labels for…

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Understanding Presentations – Insert Objects

Insert a graphical object (picture, image, drawn object) into a slide. To insert an object like an image or a graphical object to a specific location in a slide, first of all bring the text pointer to that location by clicking at that location once. Now click on ‘Insert’ from the main menu bar. This…

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Understanding Presentations – Manipulate Objects

Copy, move graphical objects, charts within the presentation, between open presentations. To copy an object within a presentation or between open presentations, first of all select the object. Then right-click on the object and from the resulting menu click on ‘Copy’. Now go to the location where you want to copy this object to and…

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Understanding Presentations – Drawing

Add different types of drawn object to a slide: line, arrow, block arrow, rectangle, square, oval, circle, text box. We can add the different drawn objects to a slide from the ‘Drawing Toolbar’. To activate the drawing toolbar, firstly go to ‘View’ option on the main menu bar and then select ‘Toolbars’ from the drop…

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Understanding Presentations – Text in Objects

Enter text into a text box; block arrow, rectangle, square, oval, and circle. We can enter text into a text box, a block arrow, a rectangle, a square, an oval or a circle by double clicking inside these drawn objects. A cursor appears inside the objects upon double-clicking and then we can enter text into…

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Understanding Presentations – Lines

We can change the line color and line style of an object by using the ‘Line and Filling’ toolbar. First of all, go to the ‘View’ option on the main menu bar and then select the option ‘Toolbars’ from the drop down list that appears. Now select the option ‘Line and Filling’ from the list…

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Understanding Presentations – Grouping and Arranging

Group, un-group drawn objects in a slide. Grouping objects means that a particular number of objects which are being grouped together will behave as one entity. So any operation which needs to be performed will be performed on the whole group together. We can group any number of objects in a slide by using the…

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Understanding Presentations – Slide Transition

Add, remove transition effects between slides. Slide transitions represent the effects which are displayed when we move from one slide to another in a presentation. Slide transition effects can be both added as well as removed according to the presenter’s requirements. We can add transition effects by selecting ‘Slide Transition’ from the Tasks Pane or…

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Understanding Presentations – Animation Effects

Add, remove preset animation effects for different slide elements. Slide 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. Now to apply animation, choose option ‘Custom Animation’ from the Tasks Pane or from…

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Understanding Presentations – Presenter Notes

Add presenter notes to slides. Notes provide a convenient way to create reminders or add extra information to slides in a presentation. Notes are not displayed during a slide show. However, using dual displays, you can display any notes on the second display as a presentation cue. You can also print the notes and use…

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Understanding Presentations – Hide, show slides.

Hide, Show Slides In Impress, we can choose to hide a slide. To hide a slide, select the slides that you want to hide in the Slides pane, or in Slide Sorter view. After this, click on ‘Slide Show’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Hide Slide’. The slide…

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Understanding Presentations – Check and Deliver

Spell check a presentation and make changes like: correcting spelling errors, deleting repeated words. To spell check a presentation, click on ‘Tools’ from the main menu bar and from the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Spelling and Grammar’. This will open the ‘Spelling and Grammar’ dialog box. This dialog lists all the incorrect words in…

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Understanding Presentations – Print

Change slide setup, slide orientation to portrait, landscape. Change paper size. We can change the slide orientation to portrait or landscape by using the ‘Print’ dialog box. Firstly select ‘Print’ option form the ‘File’ option on the main menu bar. This will open the ‘Print’ dialog box. Now, in this dialog box, under the ‘General’…

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Understanding Presentations – Slide Show

Start a slide show from first slide, from current slide. We can start the slide show from the first slide by selecting the ‘Slide Show’ option from the main menu bar and from the drop down that appears selecting the option ‘Start from first slide’. This will start the presentation from the first slide. We…

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Understanding Presentations Quiz

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