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| 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 |
| 00:09 | * Various Toolbars in Impress |
| 00:12 | * How to create a new presentation |
| 00:15 | * How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation |
| 00:19 | * How to open an MS PowerPoint presentation and |
| 00:22 | * 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 a 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:
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| 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 Synaptic Package Manager, |
| 01:22 | please refer to the Ubuntu Linux Tutorials on this website and download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website. |
| 01:32 | Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of LibreOffice Suite. |
| 01:38 | Remember, when installing, use the 'Complete' option to install 'Impress'. |
| 01:43 | If you have already installed LibreOffice Suite, |
| 01:46 | 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. |
| 01:58 | A new dialog-box opens up with various LibreOffice components. |
| 02:03 | In order to access LibreOffice Impress, click on the Presentation component. In the new dialog-box, click on Create. |
| 02:13 | This will open an empty presentation in the main Impress window. |
| 02:18 | Now, let us learn about the main components of the Impress window. |
| 02:22 | The Impress window has various tool bars like- the title bar, the menu bar, the standard toolbar, the formatting bar and the status bar. |
| 02:36 | We will learn more about the toolbars as the tutorials progress. |
| 02:41 | We are now ready to work on our first presentation! Now, close this file. |
| 02:47 | Let us go to Applications, click on Office, then click on LibreOffice Impress. |
| 02:56 | Click on From template. |
| 02:59 | Select "Recommendation of a Strategy" and click on the Next button. |
| 03:06 | In the "Select a slide design" drop-down, select Presentation Backgrounds. Then select Blue Border. |
| 03:14 | In the "Select an output medium" field, select Original. |
| 03:19 | Click on the Next button. |
| 03:22 | This is the step for building slide transitions. |
| 03:26 | Leave all the options as they are and click on Next. |
| 03:32 | In the "What is your name.." field, you can type your name or your organization's name. I will type "A1 services". |
| 03:41 | In the "What is the subject of your presentation" field, type: "Benefits of Open Source". |
| 03:47 | Click on Next. |
| 03:49 | This step describes the presentation. |
| 03:52 | All the options are selected by default. Don’t change anything. |
| 03:58 | They are sample headings for the presentation. |
| 04:01 | Click on the Create button. |
| 04:04 | You have now created your first presentation in LibreOffice Impress! |
| 04:09 | Now, let's learn how to save the presentation. |
| 04:13 | Click on File and Save. |
| 04:15 | The Save dialog-box will open. We will name this file as "Sample-Impress" and click on the Save button. |
| 04:25 | Note that the Impress Open Document Format will be saved with the extension ".odp". |
| 04:33 | Now we will close the file. To close the presentation, click on File and Close. |
| 04:40 | Next, let's learn how to save a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. |
| 04:48 | We will open the Sample Impress presentation again. Click on File and Open and select "Sample Impress". |
| 04:59 | By default, the LibreOffice Impress saves documents in the Open document format (ODP). |
| 05:06 | To save a presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint, |
| 05:11 | Click on File and Save as. |
| 05:14 | In the File type, choose “Microsoft PowerPoint". |
| 05:18 | Choose the location to save the file. |
| 05:20 | Click on the Save button. |
| 05:24 | Click on “Keep Current Format” button. The file is now saved as a "ppt". |
| 05:33 | Let's close this file by clicking on File and Close. |
| 05:36 | Next, we will see how to open a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation in LibreOffice Impress. |
| 05:44 | Click on File and Open. |
| 05:46 | Browse for the 'ppt' file you want to open. |
| 05:50 | Select the file and click on Open. |
| 05:54 | Finally, we will now learn how to export a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a 'PDF' file. |
| 06:01 | 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. |
| 06:12 | In the filename field, type: “Sample Impress”. |
| 06:16 | 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. |
| 06:29 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial on LibreOffice Impress. |
| 06:34 | To summarize, we learnt: * Introduction to LibreOffice Impress |
| 06:39 | * Various Toolbars in Impress |
| 06:42 | * How to create a new presentation |
| 06:45 | * How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation |
| 06:49 | * How to open an MS PowerPoint presentation and * How to export as a PDF document in Impress. |
| 06:58 | Try this comprehensive assignment. |
| 07:00 | Open a new document. Write some text in first slide. |
| 07:05 | Save it as a MS Powerpoint document. Than close it. |
| 07:11 | Now, reopen the file you have saved. |
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