LibreOffice-Suite-Impress-6.3/C2/Inserting-Pictures-and-Tables-in-Impress/English
Title: Inserting Pictures and Tables
Author: Manish Naik
Novice Reviewer: Nikita Misal and Pooja Moolya
Domain Reviewer: Praveen S and Nancy Varkey
Keywords:
LibreOffice,Impress,Spoken Tutorial,Video Tutorial,Alternative of Microsoft Powerpoint,Save Image from Website,Inserting Picture in Impress presentation,Resize Picture in Impress,Hyperlink in Impress,Hyperlink to Web page in Impress,Inserting Tables in Impress presentation
Visual Cues | Narration |
Slide: Title | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Inserting Pictures and Tables. |
Slide: Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial we will learn to:
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Slide: System Requirements | This tutorial is recorded using
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Double-click on ‘Sample-Impress.odt’ | Let's open the presentation Sample-Impress.odp which we saved earlier. |
Slide: Code files |
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Narration only | Let’s learn how to insert a picture into the presentation. |
Click on ‘slide 4’ in Slides Pane. | First, let’s select slide 4 from the Slides Pane. |
Click on the Duplicate Slide icon | Make a duplicate slide by clicking on the Duplicate Slide icon in the Standard toolbar. |
Click on the Title textbox.
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Click on the Title textbox of the slide.
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Click inside the Body textbox below. | |
Go to Standard toolbar -> Point to Insert Image icon.
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Click on the Insert Image icon in the Standard toolbar.
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Point to the Insert Image dialog box. | The Insert Image dialog box appears. |
Go to Desktop -> opensource-bart.png
Click -> Open.
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Go to the location where your picture is saved.
I will go to Desktop and select the picture opensource-bart.png.
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Narration only | As mentioned earlier, this image has been provided in the Code files link. |
Press CTRL + Z | Let's undo the change by pressing Ctrl+Z keys. |
Go to the centre of the Body textbox ->
Point to the small box with 4 icons.
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In the centre of the Body textbox, notice a small box with 4 icons.
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Point to the bottom left icon and click on it. | Click on the bottom left icon in the Insert Toolbar named “Insert Image” to insert an image, also. |
Choose opensource-bart.png by clicking on it -> Open.
Point to the picture in the slide. |
Select opensource-bart.png and click on the Open button at the top right.
The image gets inserted into the slide. |
Narration only: | Let’s learn how to change the shape and size of the image. |
Point to the eight handles around the picture. | There are eight handles named ‘Control Points’ around the corners of the image. |
Hover the mouse on Control Point. | Hover the mouse on any Control Point till the cursor turns into a ‘double vertical arrow’. |
Hold the left mouse button on the Control Point.
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Now click and hold the left mouse button on any one Control Point.
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Drag the top right corner Control Point downward | Dragging the corner Control points helps us to scale the length and breadth proportionally. |
Click anywhere in the textbox. | Once you finish resizing the image, click anywhere in the textbox. |
Click on the previous slide titled ‘Long Term Goal’ in the Slides Pane. | |
Go to the Insert Toolbar ->
Point to the right-side icons named ‘Insert Charts’ and ‘Insert Audio or Video’.
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Likewise, we can insert other objects like charts and audio-video clips into the slide.
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Slide: Hyperlink
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Next, let’s learn about hyperlink.
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Narration only: | First, we will learn how to hyperlink to another slide within a presentation. |
Click on the Title textbox
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Click on the Title textbox of the slide.
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Move this slide to no. 2 position by clicking on it in the Slides pane >>
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Then we will move this slide to no. 2 position by clicking on it in the Slides pane.
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Click on the Body textbox. Type following :
Short Term Strategy<Enter> Open Source Funny<Enter> Long Term Goal |
Click on the Body textbox and type the following text:
Short Term Strategy Open Source Funny Long Term Goal |
Select the line of text “Overview”. | Now select the line of text Overview. |
Go to the Standard Toolbar -> Insert Hyperlink icon.
Point to the Hyperlink dialog box. |
Click on the Insert Hyperlink icon in the Standard Toolbar.
The Hyperlink dialog box appears on the screen. |
Go to the left pane -> Select Document.
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On the left pane of the dialog box, select the Document option.
Under the Target in Document section, go to the right side of the Target field.
Click on the Circle icon named Target in document. |
Point to the ‘Target in document’ dialog box.
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The Target in document dialog box appears on the screen.
You can select any slide from the list which you want to hyperlink. |
Double click on the “Slide 2”.
Click on the Apply -> Close. |
I’m selecting Slide 3 from the list by double-clicking on it.
Click on the Apply button and then click on the Close button on this list. |
Go to Target field -> Point to ‘Slide 2’.
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Now we see that Slide 3 is displayed in the Target field.
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Click outside the Body textbox. | Then click anywhere outside the Body textbox. |
Hover the cursor over the hyperlinked text.
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Now, when you hover the cursor over the hyperlinked text, the cursor turns into a pointing finger.
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Press Ctrl + click on hyperlinked text.
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Press Ctrl key and click on the hyperlinked text.
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Narration only: | Next we’ll learn how to hyperlink to another document from this presentation. |
Click on the Slide “Table of Content”.
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First, go back to the slide titled “Table of Contents”.
Click inside the Body textbox.
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Select the sentence “External Document” | Now select the sentence “External Document”. |
Go to the Standard Toolbar -> Insert Hyperlink icon. | Click on the Insert Hyperlink icon in the Standard Toolbar. |
Go to the left pane -> select Document.
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In the Hyperlink dialog box, on the left pane select the Document section.
Click on the Folder icon named ‘Open File’. |
Point to the Open dialog box.
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The Open dialog box appears on the screen.
I will go to Desktop and choose resume.odt file.
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Point to the Path field.
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Notice that the full location of resume.odt appears in the Path field.
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Click outside the Body textbox. | Now, click anywhere outside the Body textbox. |
Point to hyperlinked text. | Observe that the text External Document becomes a hyperlinked text. |
Press Ctrl + click on hyperlinked text.
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Press Ctrl key and click on the hyperlinked text.
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Point to the resume.odt document. | In our case, it takes us to resume.odt |
Switch back to Impress Window. | Hyperlinking to a web page is similar. |
Click on Body textbox ->
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Click on the Body textbox once again.
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Select the sentence “Ubuntu LibreOffice”. | Select the sentence Ubuntu LibreOffice. |
Click on Insert >> Hyperlink option | Click on Insert menu in the menu bar and then click on Hyperlink option. |
Go to the left pane -> Point to the Internet.
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In the Hyperlink dialog box, by default, the Internet section is selected in the left pane.
And in the Hyperlink Type section, the Web radio button is also selected. |
Type ‘www.libreoffice.org’ in the URL field.
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Now in the URL field, type ‘www.libreoffice.org’.
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Click anywhere outside the Body textbox. | Click anywhere outside the Body textbox. |
Point to hyperlinked text. | Observe that the text Ubuntu LibreOffice becomes a hyperlinked text. |
For the next part of this demonstration, you will need internet connectivity.
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Press Ctrl + click on hyperlinked text.
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Press Ctrl key and click on the hyperlinked text.
<<PAUSE>> |
Next, we will learn how to insert tables into our presentation. | |
Switch back to the Impress window. | Tables are used to organize data in columns and rows. |
Select the slide entitled Short Term Strategy. | Select the slide titled Short Term Strategy from the Slides pane. |
Go to the Standard Toolbar -> Slide Layout icon.
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Click on the Slide Layout icon in the Standard Toolbar.
Click on the Title and 2 Content layout. |
Go to the right side Body textbox -> click on the Insert table icon.
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Now, go to the left side Body textbox of the slide.
Click on the icon named ‘Insert Table’ in the Insert Toolbar. |
Point to the Insert Table dialog box.
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The Insert Table dialog box appears on the screen.
By default, it shows the Number of columns as 5 and Number of rows as 2. |
Point to the minus “-” and plus ’+’ and buttons.
Press “+” button next to Number of rows until it appear ‘5’. |
We can increase or decrease the numbers using the plus and minus buttons.
Number of rows as 5. |
Click on the Ok.
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Click on the ‘Ok’ button at the right hand side corner.
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Click on the Table icon in the Standard Toolbar.
DO NOT CLICK |
Another way to insert a table is by clicking on the Table icon in the Standard toolbar.
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Point to the Control Points.
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Notice that there are Control Points around the table.
Click and hold the left mouse button on the lower Control Point and drag it downwards. |
Enter data into the table as shown:
Implementation 2016 2017 2018 2019 In 2nd column, type following: Year % 10% 20% 30% 40% |
Now type some text into the table as shown here.
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Narration only: | Let's change the font of the header row to Bold and center the text. |
Select the text in the top row.
Go to the Paragraph -> Align Center. |
Select the text in the top row.
Click on the Properties section in the Sidebar.
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Narration only: | Next, let’s change the color of the table. |
Select all the texts. | First select all the text in the table by dragging the mouse like this. |
Go to the Table Design -> point to the table styles.
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In the Properties section, go to the Table Design property and select any table style.
I will select a table style of my choice, from the list. |
Close the Properties section | Close the Properties section for a better view. |
Click outside the Body textbox.
Point to the table. |
Click anywhere outside the Body textbox.
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Go to the Standard toolbar -> Save.
click on the X icon at the top right. |
Let us save all the changes we made in our presentation by clicking on the Save icon.
And then close the 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 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 |
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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
Acknowledgment to DesiCrew |
This tutorial was originally contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2011
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