LibreOffice-Suite-Impress/C2/Introduction-to-LibreOffice-Impress/English

Resources for recording

Introduction to Impress

Visual Cues	Narration
Slide Number 1	Welcome to the tutorial on Introduction to LibreOffice Impress.
Slide Number 2 Learning Objectives: Introduction to Impress Various Toolbars Create a new presentation Save as MS PowerPoint Open an MS PowerPoint Export as a PDF document	In this tutorial, we will learn: Introduction to LibreOffice Impress Various Toolbars in Impress How to create a new presentation How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation How to open an MS PowerPoint presentation and How to export as a PDF document in Impress
Show Slide 2 What is LibreOffice Impress? LibreOffice Impress is the presentation manager of the LibreOffice Suite. used to create powerful presentations. the equivalent of Microsoft Office PowerPoint.	LibreOffice Impress is the presentation manager of the LibreOffice Suite. It is used to create powerful presentations. It is the equivalent of Microsoft Office PowerPoint.
Show Slide 3 What is LibreOffice Impress? LibreOffice Impress is Free, OpenSource software, Free of cost and free to use and distribute.	LibreOffice Impress is a free, open source software, free of cost and free to use and distribute.
Show Slide 4 OS and versions	To get started with LibreOffice suite,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.
Show Slide 5 OS and versions	Here we are using Ubuntu Linux version 10.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.
Show www.libreoffice.org	If you do not have LibreOffice Suite installed, Impress can be installed by using Synaptic Package Manager. For more information on SynapticPackageManager, please refer to theUbuntu Linux Tutorials on this website And download LibreOffice Suite by following the instructions on this website. Detailed instructions are available in the first tutorial of LibreOffice Suite. Remember, when installing, use the'Complete' option to install 'Impress'.
Click on “Applications”->Click on “Office”->Click on “LibreOffice”	If you have already installed LibreOffice Suite, 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.
Click on “Presentation”	A new dialog box opens up with various LibreOffice components. In order to access LibreOffice Impress, click on the Presentation component.
In the new dialog box, click on “Create”.	In the new dialog box, click on Create.
	This will open an empty presentation in the main Impress window. Now let us learn about the main components of the Impress window.
Show main LibreOffice Impress window. Drag cursor along all options in the “Titlebar”, ”Menubar”, ”Standardtoolbar”, ”Formatting bar”,”Status bar”	The Impress window has various tool bars like the Title bar, the Menu bar, the Standard toolbar, the Formatting bar and the Status bar. We will learn more about the toolbars as the tutorials progress. We are now ready to work on our first presentation! Now close this file.
Go to Applications->Office-> LibreOffice Impress.	Let us go to Applications, click on Office, then click on LibreOffice Impress.
Click on ‘from template’. Select “Recommendation of a strategy” >> click Next.	Click on From template. Select Recommendation of a Strategy and click on the Next button.
Click ‘Select a slide design’ drop down >> select ‘Presentation Backgrounds’ >> select ‘Blue Border’	In the Select a slide design drop down, select Presentation Backgrounds. Then select Blue Border.
Click ‘select an output medium field’ >> select ‘original’>> Click Next.	In the Select an output medium field, select Original. Click on the Next button.
Click on Next.	This is the step for building slide transitions. Leave all the options as they are and click on Next.
Click ‘what is your name’ field >> type ‘A1 services’	In the What is your name field, you can type your name or your organisation’s name. I will type A1 services.
In the ‘what is the subject of your presentation’ field >> type ‘Benefits of OpenSource’. Click on Next.	In the What is the subject of your presentation field, type Benefits of OpenSource. Click on Next.
Point to some options. Click on Create.	This step describes the presentation. All the options are selected by default. Don’t change anything. They are sample headings for the presentation. Click on the Create button. You have now created your first presentation in LibreOffice Impress!
Click on File >> Save. Point to the Save dialog box. Type “Sample-Impress” in filename>> Click on Save button.	Now lets learn how to save the presentation. Click on File and Save. The Save dialog box will open. We will name this file as Sample-Impress and click on the Save button. Note that the Impress Open Document Format will be saved with the extension .odp.
Click on File >> Close.	Now we will close the file. To close the presentation, click on File and Close.
Click on File >> Open >> “Sample-Impress”	Next, lets learn how to save a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. We will open the Sample Impress presentation again. Click on “File” and “Open” and select “Sample Impress”.
Go to File->Save as	By default the LibreOffice Impress saves documents in the Open document format (ODP). To save a presentation as Microsoft PowerPoint, click on “File” and “Save as”.
In the File type >>choose “Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt)”	In the “File type”, choose “Microsoft PowerPoint”
Choose location as Desktop Click on Save. Click on “Keep Current Format” button. Hover mouse over the file icon in desktop to show the .ppt extension	Choose the location to save the file. Click on the “Save” button. Click on “Keep Current Format” button. The file is now saved as a ppt.
Click File >> Close.	Let’s close this file now by clicking on File and Close.
Go to File->Open. Select the ppt file and click on Open.	Next, we will see how to open a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation in LibreOffice Impress. Click on “File” and “Open”. Browse for the ppt. file you want to open. Select the file and click on “Open”.
Click on File->Export as PDF	Finally, we will now learn how to export a LibreOffice Impress presentation as a PDF file. Clcik on “File” and “Export as PDF”.
Click on Export. Type ‘Sample-Impress’ in the name field. In the Save in folder field >> choose desktop >> Click on Save.	In the PDF options dialog box, leave all the options as they are and click on the “Export” button. In the filename field type “Sample-Impress”. In the ‘Save in folder’ field, choose the location where you want to save the file and click on “Save”. The document has now been saved as a pdf file on the Desktop.
This is the starting point for the next tutorial.
Show Slide 6. Summary Introduction to Impress Various Toolbars Create a new presentation Save as MS PowerPoint Open an MS PowerPoint Export as a PDF document	This brings us to the end of this tutorial on LibreOffice Impress To summarize, we learnt Introduction to LibreOffice Impress Various Toolbars in Impress How to create a new presentation How to save as MS PowerPoint presentation How to open an MS PowerPoint presentation and How to export as a PDF document in Impress
Slide 7. Comprehensive Assignment Try this comprehensive assignment. Open a new document. Write some text in the first slide. Save it as an MS powerpoint document. Then close it. Now reopen the file you have saved.	Try this comprehensive assignment. Open a new document. Write some text in the first slide. Save it as an MS powerpoint document. Then close it. Now reopen the file you have saved.
Show About Slide About the Spoken Tutorial Project Watch the video available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/What_is_a_Spoken_Tutorial It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it	Watch the video available at the following link It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it
Show About Slide Spoken Tutorial Workshops The Spoken Tutorial Project Team Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials Gives certificates for those who pass an online test For more details, please write to contact@spoken-tutorial.org	The Spoken Tutorial Project Team Conducts workshops using spoken tutorials Gives certificates for those who pass an online test For more details, please write to contact at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org
Show Acknowledgement Slide Acknowledgements Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro
Show About the contributor Slide About the contributor This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. www.desicrew.in Thanks for joining	This tutorial has been contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Thanks for joining

Contributors and Content Editors

Chandrika, Madhurig