LibreOffice-Suite-Impress-6.3/C2/Creating-a-presentation-in-Impress/English
Title: Creating a presentation
Author: Nancy Varkey, Manish Naik
Novice Reviewer: Nikita Misal and Pooja Moolya
Domain Reviewer: Praveen S and Nancy Varkey
Keywords:
LibreOffice,Impress,Spoken Tutorial,Video Tutorial,Parts of Impress Window,Alternative of Microsoft Powerpoint,Impress Basic Features,Impress User Interface,Tabs of Impress,Slide Layouts in Impress,How to insert Slides in Impress,How to copy Slides in Impress,Formatting of Fonts in Impress
Visual Cues | Narration |
Slide: Title | Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Creating a presentation. |
Slide: Learning Objectives | In this tutorial we will learn about some important features in the Impress window.
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Slide: System Requirements | This tutorial is recorded using
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Open file Sample-Impress.odp by double-clicking. | Let's open the presentation “Sample-Impress.odp” which we created earlier. |
Slide: Code files |
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Narration only: | Let's take a closer look at the Impress window. |
Point to the center pane. | In the center, we see the Workspace, which is our working area. |
Narration only: | We can customize the view of the Workspace based on our preferences. |
Click on View -> | To do so, click on the View menu in the menu bar. |
Point to View Tab Bar. | Then select the View Tab Bar option. |
Point to the 4 tabs at the top of the Workspace pane. | At the top, the Workspace has 4 tabs called ‘View buttons’. |
Point to the Normal tab. | By default, the Normal tab is selected.
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Click on the Outline tab. | Outline tab shows topic titles, bulleted, and numbered lists for each slide in outline format. |
Click on the Notes tab. | Notes tab lets you add notes to each slide.
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Click on the Slide Sorter tab. | Slide Sorter tab shows thumbnails of slides. |
Click on the Normal tab. | Let’s click on the Normal tab again. |
Click on the Display Views -> Hover the mouse on icons. | Another way to access these is by clicking on the Display Views icon in the Standard toolbar.
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Point to the Slides pane on the left of the screen.
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On the left-hand side of the screen is the Slides Pane.
It contains thumbnails of the slides in the presentation. |
Point to the Sidebar on the right of the screen.
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On the right-hand side is the Sidebar,
It has 7 sections. |
Click on the Properties.
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In the Sidebar, click on the first section named ‘Properties’
We can use these layouts directly or modify them as per our requirements. |
Point to the 7 sections again. | We shall see each of these sections in detail as we progress through the series. |
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Let’s close the Properties section.
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Click on the 2nd slide.
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Now, let’s add some content to the 2nd empty slide.
Click on the 2nd slide in the Slides Pane.
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Click on ‘Click to add Text’ textbox and type
Explain the long term course to follow |
Then click on the textbox that says ‘Click to add Text’.
And type the following text: Summarize the main plans Explain the long term course to follow. |
Press Ctrl+A to select all sentences. |
Let us add bullet points to the content in the Body textbox.
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Click on the Properties.
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Then click on the Properties section.
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Click on ‘x’ at the top right corner of the Properties section. | Let’s close the Properties section. |
Notice the change in the text. | |
Narration only: | Now, let's learn how to insert a new slide into the presentation.
Let’s look at the first way. |
Click on ‘slide 2’ in the Slides Pane. | Select slide 2 in the Slides Pane, by clicking on it. |
Narration only:
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If you have resized your LibreOffice window, some of the icons may not be visible.
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Go to the Standard Toolbar-> New Slide icon. | Click on the New Slide icon in the Standard Toolbar. |
Point to a new slide in the Slide Pane. | A new blank slide gets inserted after slide 2. |
Click on the Slide menu -> New Slide.
Point to the new blank slide in Slides Pane. |
Let me show you another way to add a new slide.
And then on the New Slide option.
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Narration only: | Let's add some content into these empty slides. |
Select slide 3.
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Select the slide 3 in the Slides Pane.
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Select slide 4.
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Likewise, set the title for the 4th slide as “Long Term Goal”. |
Narration only: | Now, let us learn how to copy a slide.
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Click on ‘slide 3’ in the Slides Pane. | Let’s look at the first way.
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Go to the Standard Toolbar-> Duplicate Slide icon.
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Click on the Duplicate Slide icon in the Standard Toolbar.
A new duplicate slide gets inserted after slide 3. |
Click on the Slide menu-> Duplicate Slide.
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Alternatively, click on the Slide menu in the menu bar
And then on the Duplicate Slide option.
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Narration only: | Now, let’s learn about fonts and how to format fonts. |
Click on the slide ‘Overview’ in Slides Pane.
Select the second line of text. |
Click on the slide titled ‘Overview’ in the Slides Pane.
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Go to the Sidebar >> Properties >> Character.
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Go to the Sidebar and click on the Properties icon.
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Select 32 from the Font size drop-down
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Then change the Font size from “26” to “32”.
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Narration only: | Next, let’s change the color of the font. |
Click on the Body textbox and select all the text. | Click on the Body textbox and select all the text by pressing Ctrl+A keys. |
Go to the Sidebar >> Properties
Go to Character >> Font color >>
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In the Character property, go to the Font Color icon.
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Click on the Title textbox and select the text.
Point to the text. |
Now, click on the Title textbox and select the entire text.
Now, let’s click on the icons for Italics and Underline.
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Narration only | Finally, we will learn to delete a slide from the presentation.
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In Slide Pane >>select slide 5
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First way is to select a slide, say slide 5 in the Slide Pane.
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In Slide Pane >>select slide 5
Press Delete key |
Second way is to select a slide, say slide 4 In the Slide Pane.
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Go to the Standard toolbar -> Save.
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Let us save all the changes we made in our presentation by clicking on the Save icon.
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Narration only: | With this, we have come to the end of this spoken tutorial.
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Slide: Summary
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In this tutorial we learnt some important features in the Impress window.
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Slide: Assignment | 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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