LibreOffice-Suite-Impress-6.3/C3/Slide-Show-Creation-in-Impress/English
Title: SlideShow Creation
Author: Manish Naik
Novice Reviewer: Nikita M, Pooja M, Arvind P
Domain Reviewer: Praveen S and Nancy Varkey
Keywords: LibreOffice,Impress,Spoken Tutorial,Video Tutorial,Alternative of Microsoft Powerpoint,Slideshow in Impress,How to Automate Impress Slide Show,How to exit Slideshow in Impress,Slide Transition in impress,How to Modify Transition in Impress,Add sound to Transition in Impress
Visual Cue | Narration |
Slide: Title | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Slide Show creation in LibreOffice Impress. |
Slide: Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial we will learn about creating:
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Slide: System Requirements | This tutorial is recorded using
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Slide: About Slide Shows
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Slide Shows are usually
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Slide: About Slide Shows
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Open Sample-Impress.odp. | Let's open our presentation Sample-Impress.odp. |
Slide: Code files |
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Narration only: | Let’s learn how to view this presentation as a Slide Show. |
Go to the Standard Toolbar -> ‘Start from First Slide’ icon.
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Locate the ‘Start from First Slide’ icon in the Standard Toolbar.
Notice the tooltip on the icon displays the shortcut key F5 to start the Slide Show. |
Click the ‘Start from First Slide’ icon. | By clicking on the ‘Start from First Slide’, the presentation is now displayed as a Slide Show. |
Narration only: | In Slide Show mode, we can navigate between slides by using the arrow keys on the keyboard. |
Click on the left arrow key >> next slide >> next slide | The Right arrow key takes us to the next slide one after the other. |
Click on the right arrow key >> previous slide >> previous slide | The Left arrow key takes us to the previous slide one before the other. |
Right-click on the slide in the slideshow -> End Show. | At any time, to exit the Slide Show, right-click for the context menu.
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Click on the SlideShow -> Point to Start from First Slide | Another method to start the Slide Show, is to click on the SlideShow menu in the menu bar.
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Press ESC key. | Another way to exit the Slide Show is by pressing the ESCAPE key on the keyboard. |
Narration only: | Next, let’s learn how to use the Mouse Pointer as a pen.
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Click on the SlideShow >> Slide Show Settings. | Click on the Slide Show menu in the menu bar and then on the Slide Show Settings option. |
Point to Slide Show dialog box.
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The Slide Show Settings dialog box appears.
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Click OK | Click OK to close the dialog box. |
Press F5 key | Now start the Slide Show by pressing the F5 key. |
Move the cursor a little bit.
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Notice that the Mouse Pointer now turned into a pen.
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Draw a tick mark before the sentence ‘Benefit of Open Source’ | Let’s draw a tick mark before the title ‘Benefit of Open Source’ in slide 1.
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Press the Spacebar
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We can also advance to the next slide by pressing the Spacebar or Enter key on the keyboard. |
Press ESC key. | Let’s exit the Slide Show by pressing the ESCAPE key. |
Narration only: | We can start the Slide Show from the current slide displayed in the Workspace, as well. |
Go to Standard Toolbar ->
Point to Start from Current Slide icon |
To do this, click on the ‘Start from Current Slide’ icon in the Standard Toolbar. |
Click on the Slideshow menu -> Start from Current Slide
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Alternatively, you can do this by clicking on the SlideShow menu in the menu bar.
Then click on the Start from Current Slide option. Notice that this time, the Slide Show started from the slide titled Table of Contents. |
Press ESC | Let’s exit the Slide Show. |
Slide: Assignment | Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
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Narration only: | Next, let’s learn about Slide Transitions. |
Slide: Slide Transitions
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What are Slide Transitions?
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Click on the Slide Sorter tab.
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Click on the Slide Sorter tab in the Workspace.
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Narration only: | Let’s learn how to add different transitions to each slide, in one go. |
From the Slide Sorter view, select the first slide. | From the Slide Sorter view, select the first slide. |
Go to the Sidebar -> Slide Transition icon. | Go to the Sidebar and click on the icon named Slide Transition. |
Go the Slide Transitions sections >> Point to all transition effects.
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In the Slide Transition section, we can see a list of transition effects available for use.
I will select the ‘Wipe’ transition. |
Point to the transition effect in the Workspace.
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Notice that the preview of the selected transition effect is displayed in the Workspace.
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Point to Modify Transitions. | We can also modify the selected transition effect through the Modify Transitions subsection. |
Go to Variant field -> Point to Bottom to top in drop-drown.
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By default, the Variant field is set to Bottom to top.
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Click on the Sound drop-down-> ‘applause’ |
Now, let’s set a sound to this transition.
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Select the second slide.
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Now, let’s select the second slide.
Scroll and select ‘Clockwise 8 Spokes’.
Next, click on the Sound drop-down and select ‘apert’. |
Preview appears automatically | Again we see the preview of the transition effect we have made. |
Narration only: | We have now learnt how to animate and add a sound effect to a slide transition. |
Narration only: | Let us now learn how to create a presentation that advances automatically. |
Modify Transitions -> check the ‘Loop until next sound’. | Under the Modify Transitions subsection, check the ‘Loop until next sound’. |
Point to Advance Slide.
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Now, under the Advance Slide subsection, click on the radio button ‘Automatically after.
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Click on the ‘Apply Transitions to all slides’ button. | Lastly, click on the ‘Apply Transitions to all slides’ button.
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Narration only: | This way we need not add transitions for each slide individually. |
Press F5 | Let’s start the Slide Show now to see all of these customised effects. |
Let the sideshow play >>
Let the presentation play for 3 slides. |
Notice that the slides advance automatically with a time interval of 1 second. |
Press ESC | Let’s exit the Slide Show. |
Slide: Slide Transitions. | Now we’ll learn to create presentations
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Select the second slide.
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From the Workspace, let’s select the second slide.
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Select the third slide.
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Let’s select the third slide and set the time to ‘3’ seconds. |
Select the 4th slide and follow the same steps as for the previous slides.
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Let’s select the fourth slide and set the time to ‘4’ seconds. |
Press F5 | Let’s start the Slide Show. |
Let it play for four slides. | Notice that each slide is displayed for different lengths of time that we specified. |
Press ESC | Let’s exit the Slide Show. |
Click the Normal tab.
Click on the ‘X’ icon. |
Let’s return to that Normal tab and close the Slide Transition section. |
Ctrl + S, click on ‘X’ icon | Let us save all these changes for future use and then close the presentation file. |
Narration only: | With this, we have come to the end of this spoken tutorial.
Let us summarize. |
Slide: Summary
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In this tutorial, we have learnt about;
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Slide: Assignment
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As an assignment:
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Slide: About the Spoken Tutorial Project |
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Slide: Spoken Tutorial Workshops | We conduct workshops using spoken tutorials and give certificates.
For more details, please write to us. |
Slide: Forum | Please post your timed queries in this forum |
Slide: Acknowledgements | The Spoken Tutorial project is funded by MHRD, Govt. of India. |
Slide: Thank you Acknowledgement to DesiCrew | This tutorial was originally contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2011.
This is Arvind and Manish from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching. |