LibreOffice-Suite-Impress-6.3/C2/Introduction-to-LibreOffice-Impress/English-timed

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00:01 Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Impress.
00:07 In this tutorial, we will learn:
00:11 About LibreOffice Impress
00:14 Various toolbars
00:17 How to create a new presentation
00:21 How to save and close a presentation
00:25 How to open an existing presentation
00:29 How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation and
00:34 How to export as a PDF document in Impress
00:40 What is LibreOffice Impress
00:43 LibreOffice Impress is the presentation component of the LibreOffice Suite
00:49 It is the equivalent of Microsoft Powerpoint in Microsoft Office Suite
00:56 It is a free and open source software
01:00 It can be shared, modified and distributed without any restrictions
01:07 LibreOffice Impress can run on any of the following operating systems:
01:13 Microsoft Windows 8 or higher versions
01:17 GNU/Linux Operating System and

Mac OSX

01:25 This tutorial is recorded using

Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 and

01:33 LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5
01:39 By default, the latest Ubuntu Linux OS has LibreOffice Suite pre-installed in it
01:47 To install a specific version, refer to the LibreOffice Installation series on this website.
01:55 Now let us learn how to open LibreOffice Impress.
02:01 In Ubuntu Linux OS, click on the Show Applications icon located at the bottom left corner.
02:10 In the search bar, type Impress.
02:15 From the displayed list, click on the LibreOffice Impress icon.
02:21 In Windows OS, click on the Start Menu icon located at the bottom left corner.
02:29 In the search bar, type Impress.
02:33 From the displayed list, click on the LibreOffice Impress icon.
02:39 Select a Template dialog box opens up.
02:44 There are various inbuilt templates displayed here.

You can choose any of them.

02:53 I will select the Alizarin template and click on the Open button at the bottom right corner.
03:02 This will open an empty presentation in the main Impress window.
03:08 Now let us learn about the main components of the Impress window.
03:15 The Impress window has various toolbars.
03:19 Title bar, Menu bar, Standard toolbar, Formatting bar, Status bar, and Sidebar.
03:30 We will learn more about the toolbars as the series progresses.
03:37 We are now ready to work on our first presentation!
03:42 Let’s begin by adding some content to the slide.
03:47 Click on the textbox that says Click to add Title.
03:53 Now type “Benefit of Open Source” inside it and click anywhere outside the textbox.
04:02 Next, click on the textbox that says Click to add Text.
04:08 Here type “A1 services” inside it and click anywhere outside the textbox.
04:17 So, this is how we add content inside a slide.
04:22 Now let us save the presentation for future use.
04:28 To save the file, click on the Save icon in the Standard toolbar.
04:34 A dialog box appears on the screen.
04:38 It prompts us to enter the name of our file in the Name field.
04:44 I will type the name of the file as “Sample hyphen Impress”.
04:50 On the left side, I’ll select Desktop as the location to save my file.
04:57 Notice, we have a File type drop-down at the bottom right corner.
05:03 Click on this drop-down.
05:06 It shows a list of file types or file extensions in which we can save our file.
05:14 The default file type in LibreOffice Impress is ODF Presentation (.odp).
05:23 ODF stands for Open Document Format which is an open standard.
05:30 Click on the Save button at the top right corner of the dialog box.
05:37 We will be redirected back to the Impress window.
05:41 Observe the change in the title bar now.

It has changed to Sample hyphen Impress dot odp

05:51 To save, we can also click on the File menu in the menu bar.

And then click on the Save option.

06:01 Let’s close this presentation by clicking on the Close option in the File menu.
06:08 Next, we will learn how to open an existing presentation in LibreOffice Impress.
06:15 Let's open the same presentation Sample hyphen Impress dot odp
06:22 Click on the Open File menu on the left of the LibreOffice interface.
06:28 The file browser dialog box opens up.
06:32 Go to the location where the presentation is saved.
06:37 Now in the list of filenames that appear, choose Sample hyphen Impress dot odp.
06:45 Then click on the Open button.
06:49 The file Sample hyphen Impress dot odp opens in the Impress window.
06:56 Next, let’s learn how to save the Impress presentation as an MS PowerPoint presentation.
07:04 Click on the File menu in the menu bar and then on the Save As option.
07:11 Save As dialog box appears on the screen.
07:15 Click on the File type drop-down at the bottom right corner.
07:20 We can see dot ppt and dot pptx formats as listed here.
07:27 These file formats can be opened later in the MS Office PowerPoint application.
07:34 Select PowerPoint 2007 hyphen 365 (.pptx) file format.
07:43 Choose the location as Desktop to save the file.
07:48 Click on the Save button at the top right corner.
07:53 If we save the file in any other file format, Confirm File Format dialog box opens up.
08:01 Put a check on “Ask when not saving in ODF or default format” option.
08:09 Finally, click on the “Use PowerPoint 2007 hyphen 365 Format button.
08:18 The file is now saved as a dot pptx file.
08:23 Impress files can also be exported to PDF format.
08:28 To do so, click on the “Export Directly as PDF" icon in the Standard toolbar.
08:35 Alternatively, we can do so by clicking on the File menu in the menu bar.
08:42 Click on the Export As sub-menu.

Then click on the Export as PDF option.

08:49 PDF options dialog box opens up.
08:53 In this dialog box, we see various settings to customize the PDF option.
09:00 Keep the default settings as it is and click on the Export button at the bottom.
09:08 Choose the location where you wish to save and then click on the Save' button.
09:15 A pdf file will be created in that folder.
09:20 Let’s save this presentation. And then close it as demonstrated here.
09:28 This brings us to the end of this spoken tutorial.

Let us summarize.

09:34 In this tutorial, we learnt:

About LibreOffice Impress

09:40 Various toolbars
09:43 How to create a new presentation
09:47 How to save and close a presentation
09:51 How to open an existing presentation
09:55 How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation and
10:01 How to export as a PDF document in Impress
10:06 As an assignment

Open a new presentation in Impress

10:12 Type some content in the first slide
10:16 Save it under the name Practice hyphen Impress dot odp
10:22 Save as an MS PowerPoint presentation
10:26 Then close the presentation
10:29 Now reopen the presentation you have saved
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