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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 |
00:10 | * Various Toolbars in Impress |
00:13 | * 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 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 GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4. |
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 website and download 'LibreOffice Suite' by following the instructions on this website. |
01:31 | Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of 'LibreOffice Suite'. |
01:37 | Remember, when installing, use the Complete option to install Impress. |
01:42 | If you have already installed 'LibreOffice Suite', |
01:44 | 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. |
01:57 | A new dialog box opens up with various 'LibreOffice' components. |
02:02 | In order to access 'LibreOffice Impress', click on the Presentation component . In the new dialog box click on Create. |
02:12 | This will open an empty presentation in the main Impress window. |
02:17 | Now, let us learn about the main components of the 'Impress' window. |
02:21 | The Impress window has various tool bars like the title bar, the menu bar, the standard toolbar, the formatting bar and the status bar. |
02:35 | We will learn more about the toolbars as the tutorials progress. |
02:40 | We are now ready to work on our first presentation! Now, close this file. |
02:45 | Let us go to Applications, click on Office, then click on LibreOffice Impress. |
02:55 | Click on From template. |
02:57 | Select "Recommendation of a Strategy" and click on the Next button. |
03:04 | In the "Select a slide design" drop down, select Presentation Backgrounds. Then select Blue Border. |
03:12 | In the "Select an output medium" field, select Original. |
03:18 | Click on Next button. |
03:21 | This is the step for building slide transitions. |
03:24 | Leave all the options as they are and click on Next. |
03:30 | 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. |
03:46 | Click on Next. |
03:48 | This step describes the presentation. |
03:51 | All the options are selected by default. Don’t change anything. |
03:56 | They are sample headings for the presentation. |
04:00 | Click on the Create button. |
04:03 | You have now created your first presentation in LibreOffice Impress! |
04:08 | Now, let's learn how to save the presentation. |
04:11 | Click on File and Save. |
04:14 | The Save dialog box will open. We will name this file as Sample-Impress and click on the Save button. |
04:24 | Note that the Impress Open Document Format will be saved with the extension ".odp". |
04:31 | Now, we will close the file. To close the presentation, click on File and Close. |
04:38 | Next, let's learn how to save a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a 'Microsoft PowerPoint presentation'. |
04:47 | We will open the 'Sample Impress' presentation again. Click on File and Open and select 'Sample Impress'. |
04:57 | By default, the 'LibreOffice Impress' saves documents in the Open document format (ODP). |
05:05 | To save a presentation as 'Microsoft PowerPoint', |
05:09 | Click on File and Save as. |
05:13 | In the file type, choose Microsoft PowerPoint. |
05:17 | Choose the location to save the file. |
05:19 | Click on Save button. |
05:23 | Click on Keep Current Format button. The file is now saved as a 'ppt'. |
05:31 | Let's close this file by clicking on File and Close. |
05:35 | Next, we will see how to open a 'Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation' in 'LibreOffice Impress'. |
05:42 | Click on File and Open. |
05:45 | Browse for the 'ppt. file' you want to open. |
05:49 | Select the file and click on Open. |
05:52 | Finally, we will now learn how to export a 'LibreOffice Impress presentation' as a 'PDF file'. |
06:00 | 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. |
06:11 | In the filename field, type: "Sample Impress". |
06:15 | 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. |
06:27 | This brings us to the end of this tutorial on LibreOffice Impress. |
06:33 | To summarize, we learned: * Introduction to LibreOffice Impress |
06:37 | * Various Toolbars in Impress |
06:40 | * How to create a new presentation. |
06:43 | * How to save as 'MS PowerPoint presentation' |
06:48 | * How to open an 'MS PowerPoint presentation' and how to export as a PDF document in Impress. |
06:56 | Try this comprehensive assignment. |
06:59 | Open a new document. Write some text in first slide. |
07:04 | Save it as a MS Powerpoint document. Then close it. |
07:09 | Now, reopen the file you have saved. |
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