LibreOffice-Suite-Impress/C4/Presentation-Notes/English-timed
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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 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 | On from 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 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 content in the notes place holder and |
06.36 | Add a rectangle. |
06.38 | Let the font of the content be 36 and Color it Blue. |
06.44 | Color the rectangle with Green. |
06.48 | Adjust the size of the notes place holdern 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. Thanks for joining |