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Introduction to Impress

Time Narration
00:00 Welcome to the tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Impress.
00:04 In this tutorial, we will learn:
00:07 Introduction to LibreOffice Impress
00:10 Various Toolbars in Impress
00:13 How to create a new presentation
00:15 How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation
00:19 How to open an MS PowerPoint presentation
00:22 and How to export as a PDF document in Impress
00:27 LibreOffice Impress is the presentation manager of the LibreOffice Suite.
00:32 It is used to create powerful presentations.
00:35 It is the equivalent of Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
00:39 LibreOffice Impress is free, Open Source software, free of cost and free to use and distribute.
00:47 To get started with LibreOffice suite,
00:50 you can use either Microsoft Windows 2000 and its higher versions like MS Windows XP or MS Windows 7 or you can use GNU/Linux as your Operating System.
01:02 Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
01:12 If you do not have LibreOffice Suite installed,
01:15 Impress can be installed by using Synaptic Package Manager.
01:19 For more information on SynapticPackage Manager,
01:22 please refer to the website and download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website.
01:31 Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of LibreOffice Suite.
01:37 Remember, when installing, use the Complete option to install Impress.
01:42 If you have already installed LibreOffice Suite,
01:44 you will find LibreOffice Impress by clicking on the Applications option at the top left of your screen and then clicking on Office and then on LibreOffice option.
01:57 A new dialog box opens up with various LibreOffice components.
02:02 In order to access LibreOffice Impress, click on the Presentation component . In the new dialog box click on Create.
02:12 This will open an empty presentation in the main Impress window.
02:17 Now let us learn about the main components of the Impress window.
02:21 The Impress window has various tool bars like the title bar, the menu bar, the standard toolbar, the formatting bar and the status bar.
02:35 We will learn more about the toolbars as the tutorials progress.
02:40 We are now ready to work on our first presentation! Now close this file.
02:45 Let us Go to Applications,click on Office,then click on LibreOffice Impress.
02:55 Click on From template.
02:57 Select Recommendation of a strategy and click on the Next button.
03:04 In the Select a slide design drop down, select Presentation Backgrounds. Then select Blue Border.
03:12 In the Select an output medium field, select Original.
03:18 Click on Next button.


03:21 This is the step for building slide transitions.
03:24 Leave all the options as they are and click on Next.
03:30 In the What is your name field, you can type your name or your organisation’s name. I will type A1 services.
03:41 In the What is the subject of your presentation field, type Benefits of Open Source.
03:46 Click on Next.
03:48 This step describes the presentation.
03:51 All the options are selected by default. Don’t change anything.
03:56 They are sample headings for the presentation.
04:00 Click on the Create button.
04:03 You have now created your first presentation in LibreOffice Impress!
04:08 Now lets learn how to save the presentation.
04:11 Click on File and Save.
04:14 The Save dialog box will open. We will name this file as Sample-Impress and click on the save button.
04:24 Note that the Impress Open Document Format will be saved with the extension .odp.
04:31 Now we will close the file.To close the presentation, click on File and Close.
04:38 Next, lets learn how to save a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
04:47 We will open the Sample Impress presentation again.click on "'File'" and "'Open'" and select "'Sample Impress"'.
04:57 By default the LibreOffice Impress saves documents in the Open document format (ODP).
05:05 To save a presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint,
05:09 Click on "File" and "Save as".
05:13 In the file type, choose Microsoft PowerPoint"'.
05:17 Choose the location to save the file.
05:19 Click on "Save" button.
05:23 Click on Keep Current Format button.The file is now saved as a ppt.
05:31 Let's close this file by clicking on file and close.
05:35 Next, we will see how to open a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation in LibreOffice Impress.
05:42 Click on "'File'" and "'Open"'.
05:45 Browse for the ppt. file you want to open.
05:49 Select the file and click on "'Open'".
05:52 Finally we will now learn how to export a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a PDF file.
06:00 Click on "'File"' and "'Export as PDF'" . In the PDF options dialog box, leave all the options as they are and click on the Export button.
06:11 In the filename field type Sample Impress
06:15 In the Save in folder field, choose the location where you want to save the file and click on "'Save"'.
06:23 The document has now been saved as a pdf file on the desktop.
06:27 This brings us to the end of this tutorial on LibreOffice Impress
06:33 To summarize, we learn Introduction to LibreOffice Impress
06:37 Various Toolbars in Impress
06:40 How to create a new presentation
06:43 How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation
06:48 How to open an MS PowerPoint presentation and How to export as a PDF document in Impress
06:56 Try this comprehensive assignment.
06:59 Open a new document. Write some text in first slide.
07:04 Save it as a MS Powerpoint document. Than close it.
07:09 Now reopen the file you have saved.
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