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00:00 Welcome to the tutorial on LibreOffice Impress - Inserting Pictures and Objects.
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn how to: * Insert pictures and objects into a presentation
00:12 Format the pictures and objects
00:15 Hyperlink within and outside the presentation and insert Tables.
00:20 Here we are using:GNU/Linux as operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
00:29 In a web-browser address bar, type the URL shown on the screen.
00:34 This will display an image.
00:37 Now, right-click on the image and choose the Save Image As option.
00:41 A dialog-box will open.
00:43 In the Name field, "open source -bart.png" is already displayed.
00:51 I will choose the location as Desktop and click on the Save button.
00:59 Let's open our presentation ‘Sample-Impress’ which we had saved earlier.
01:04 We will now see how to add a picture into this presentation.
01:09 Click on Insert from the Main menu and then click on Picture.
01:14 Now, click on From File option.
01:17 A dialog-box will open.
01:19 Choose the folder from which you want to insert a picture.
01:23 I will choose the Desktop folder.
01:26 Now choose the picture we want to insert and click on the Open button.
01:31 The picture gets inserted into the slide.
01:35 Let's undo the changes.
01:37 Let me demonstrate another way to insert pictures.
01:41 Insert a new slide after the slide titled ‘Overview’ by clicking on Insert and Slide.
01:50 Click on the Title text-box and change the title to "OpenSource Funny".
01:57 Notice a small box with 4 icons in the centre. This is the Insert toolbar.
02:04 From the Insert toolbar, click on the Insert Picture icon.
02:09 Choose a picture and click on the Open button.
02:12 Notice that the inserted picture covers almost the whole slide.
02:17 You can change the shape and size of the image by first clicking on it and manipulating the control points.
02:27 In a similar manner, we can also insert other objects like charts and movie-clips into our presentation.
02:35 Explore all these possibilities.
02:38 Now let's learn how to hyperlink.
02:41 Hyperlinking allows you to easily move from slide to slide or open a web page or a document from the presentation.
02:50 First we will look at how to hyperlink with in a presentation.
02:54 Insert a new slide after the slide titled 'Overview'.
03:03 Click on the title and type: "Table of Contents".
03:07 Click on the Body text-box and type the titles of the succeeding slides as follows:
03:14 "Open Source Funny"

"The Present Situation" "Development up to present" "Potential Alternatives" "Recommendation"

03:25 Select the line of text ‘Development up to present’.
03:29 Click on Insert and Hyperlink.
03:32 This will open the Hyperlink dialog-box.
03:35 On the left pane, select Document. Then click on the button to the right of the field "Target in document".
03:49 The list of slides present in this presentation opens up.
03:54 Select the slide titled ‘Development upto present’ from the list.
03:59 Click on the Apply button and then click on the Close button in this list.
04:05 Again click on the Apply button and then click on the Close button in the Hyperlink dialog-box.
04:12 Click anywhere in the slide.
04:14 Now, when you hover the cursor over the text, the cursor turns into a pointing finger.
04:21 This means that the hyperlinking was successful!
04:25 Clicking on the hyperlinked text takes you to the relevant slide.
04:30 To hyperlink to another document, let's go back to the 'Table of Contents' slide.
04:36 Now, add another line item: 'External Document'.
04:40 Select the line of text and click on Insert and then on Hyperlink.
04:46 In the left pane, select Document.
04:49 Click on the folder icon to the right of the Document Path field.
04:56 Select the document which you want to hyperlink.
04:58 We will choose 'resume.odt' which we created in the Writer series and click on the Open button.
05:08 Click on the Apply button and then click on the Close button in the Hyperlink dialog box.
05:14 Click anywhere on the slide.
05:17 Now when you hover your cursor over the text, the cursor turns into a pointing finger.
05:23 This means that the hyperlinking was successful!
05:27 Now clicking on the hyperlinked text takes you to the relevant document.
05:32 In our case, it takes us to 'resume.odt'.
05:37 Hyperlinking to a web-page is similar.
05:40 Insert a new slide at the end of the presentation.
05:43 Change the title to "Essential Open Source Software".
05:48 In the Body text box, type: "Ubuntu"

"Libre Office".

05:53 Select the second line of text and click on Insert and then on Hyperlink.
06:01 On the left pane, select Internet.
06:03 In the Hyperlink type, select Web.
06:08 In the Target field, type: "www.libreoffice.org".
06:17 Click on the Apply button and then click on the Close button in the Hyperlink dialog-box.
06:23 Click anywhere on the slide.
06:26 Now, when you hover your cursor over the text, the cursor turns into a pointing finger.
06:32 This means that the hyperlinking was successful!
06:37 Now, clicking on the hyperlinked text takes you to the relevant web-page.
06:44 Lastly, tables are used to organize data into columns and rows.
06:49 Let’s now learn how to add a table in 'LibreOffice Impress'.
06:54 Select the slide entitled ‘Development up to present’ from the Slides pane.
07:00 From the Layout section on the Tasks pane, select Title and 2 Content icon.
07:08 Select the text in the left side text-box
07:14 and reduce the font-size to 26.
07:17 In the right side text-box, click on the icon Insert Table from the Insert toolbar in the centre.
07:25 By default, Number of columns is displayed as 5 and Number of rows is displayed as 2.
07:34 We will change the Number of columns to 2 and the Number of rows to 5.
07:42 Click on the OK button.
07:44 Let's elongate the table so that the text is readable.
07:49 Enter data into the table as shows-
07:52 "Implementation Year" and "%" (percentage)
07:56 2006 10%
07:59 2007 20%
08:02 2008 30%
08:05 2009 40%
08:08 Now, let's change the font of the header row to bold and center the text.
08:18 To change the color of the table, first select all the text.
08:22 Then from the Table Design section on the Tasks pane, select a table style. I will select this one.
08:31 See how the Table looks now.
08:33 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
08:37 To summarize, in this tutorial, we learnt how to: * Insert pictures and format them.
08:43 Hyperlink within and outside the presentation and insert Tables.
08:49 Try this comprehension test assignment.
08:53 Create new presentation.
08:55 Insert a picture on the 3rd slide.
08:58 On the 4th slide, create a table of 2 rows and three columns.
09:04 In row 2-column 2 of the table, type ‘slide 3’. Hyperlink this text to the 3rd slide.
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