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Time Narration
00:00 Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Presentation Notes in LibreOffice Impress.
00:06 In this tutorial, we will learn about Notes and how to print them.
00:12 Notes are used for two purposes:
00:14 As additional material or references, on each slide, for the audience.
00:20 To help the presenter with reference notes when presenting the slides to the audience.
00:27 Open the presentation "Sample-Impress.odp".
00:33 From the Slides pane, on the left, choose the slide titled Overview.
00:38 Change the text to:
00:40 "To achieve 30% shift to OpenSource software within 1 year".
00:46 "To achieve 95% shift to OpenSource Software within 5 years".
00:53 Let’s add some notes to the page so that when it is printed, the reader will have some reference material.
01:01 To edit the notes, click on the Notes tab.
01:04 A Notes text-box is displayed below the slide. Here, we can type the notes.
01:12 Click on Click to Add Notes.
01:15 Notice that you can edit this box.
01:19 In this text-box, type:
01:22 "Management would like to explore cost saving from shifting to Open Source Software".
01:28 "Open source software has now become a viable option to proprietary software".
01:35 "Open source software will free the company from arbitrary software updates of proprietary software". <Pause>
01:46 We have created our first Note.
01:49 Let us learn how to format the text in the Notes.
01:54 Select the text.
01:56 From the top left corner of the Impress window, click on the Font Type drop-down and select TlwgMono.
02:05 Next, in the Font size drop-down, select 18.
02:10 From the same Task bar, let’s click on the Bullet icon. The text now has bullet points.
02:18 Let’s now learn to create a Notes Master to set all notes in a standard format.
02:25 From the Main menu, click View and then click on Master. Click Notes Master.
02:33 The Notes Master view appears.
02:36 Notice that two slides are displayed.
02:40 This means, there is one Notes Master for each Master Slide, used in the presentation.
02:47 The Notes Master slide is like a template.
02:51 You can set formatting preferences here which are then applied to all the notes in the presentation.
02:58 From the Slides pane, select the first slide.
03:01 Click on the Notes place holder and select the text displayed on it.
03:08 From the top left corner of the Impress window, click on the Font Size drop-down and select 32.
03:16 From the Main menu, click Format and Character.
03:21 The Character dialog-box appears.
03:24 Click on the Font Effects tab.
03:28 Click the Font color drop-down and select Red. Click OK.
03:35 Let’s add a logo to the notes.
03:38 Let’s add a triangle.
03:40 From the Drawing toolbar, click on Basic Shapes and select Isosceles Triangle.
03:48 Insert the triangle on the top-left corner of the Notes text-box.
03:53 Select the triangle and right-click for the context menu. Click Area.
03:59 The Area dialog-box appears.
04:02 Click on the Area tab.
04:05 Click the Fill drop-down and click Color. Now, choose Blue 7.
04:12 This formatting and logo will be the default for all the notes that are created.
04:18 Click OK.
04:20 In the Master View toolbar, click Close Master View.
04:25 In the Main pane, click the Notes tab.
04:29 From the Slides pane on the left, choose the slide titled Overview.
04:35 Notice that the Notes are formatted as set in the Master Notes.
04:42 Now, let’s learn how to re-size the Notes place holder and Slide place holder.
04:48 Select the Slide Placeholder, press the left mouse button and move it to the top of the screen.
04:56 This creates more space to re-size the Notes place holder.
05:02 Now, click on the border of the Notes text place holder.
05:06 Hold the left mouse-button and drag it upward to increase the size.
05:13 We have now learnt to re-size the placeholders as we require
05:18 Now, let us see how to print the notes.
05:22 From the Main menu, click on File and select Print.
05:27 The Print dialog-box appears.
05:30 From the list of printers, select the printer connected to your system.
05:35 In the Number of Copies field, enter 2.
05:40 Click on Properties and under Orientation, select Landscape. Click OK.
05:48 Under Print Document, select Notes from the drop-down menu.
05:53 Now, select LibreOffice impress tab.
05:58 Under Contents:
06:00 Check the Slide Name Box.
06:02 Check the Date and Time Box.
06:05 Check the Original Color Box.
06:08 Click Print.
06:11 If your printer settings are configured correctly, the slides must start printing now.
06:18 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
06:21 In this tutorial, we learnt about Notes and how to print them.
06:27 Here is an assignment for you.
06:30 Open a new presentation.
06:32 Add the contents in the notes place holder and
06:36 add a rectangle.
06:38 Let the font of the contents be 36 and color it Blue.
06:44 Color the rectangle with Green.
06:48 Adjust the size of the notes place holder in comparison with the slide text holder.
06:54 Print the notes in black and white in Portrait format.
06:59 You need to print 5 copies of notes.
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07:51 This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd.

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