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Title: SlideShow Creation

Author: Manish Naik

Novice Reviewer: Nikita M, Pooja M, Arvind P

Domain Reviewer: Praveen S and Nancy Varkey

Keywords: LibreOffice,Impress,Spoken Tutorial,Video Tutorial,Alternative of Microsoft Powerpoint,Slideshow in Impress,How to Automate Impress Slide Show,How to exit Slideshow in Impress,Slide Transition in impress,How to Modify Transition in Impress,Add sound to Transition in Impress


Visual Cue Narration
Slide: Title Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Slide Show creation in LibreOffice Impress.
Slide: Learning Objectives


In this tutorial we will learn about creating:
  • Slide Shows
  • Slide Transitions and
  • Automatic Slide Shows
Slide: System Requirements This tutorial is recorded using
  • Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 and
  • LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5
Slide: About Slide Shows


Slide Shows are usually
  • Used to present slides before an audience
  • It can be shown on a desktop, laptop or projector
  • Slide Shows occupy the entire computer screen
Slide: About Slide Shows


  • Presentations cannot be edited in the Slide Show mode
  • Slide Shows are for display purpose only
Open Sample-Impress.odp. Let's open our presentation Sample-Impress.odp.
Slide: Code files
  • This file has been provided to you in the Code files link on this tutorial page
  • Pls download and extract the file
  • Make a copy and then use it for practicing
Narration only: Let’s learn how to view this presentation as a Slide Show.
Go to the Standard Toolbar -> ‘Start from First Slide’ icon.

Hover the mouse over the icon.

Locate the ‘Start from First Slide’ icon in the Standard Toolbar.

Notice the tooltip on the icon displays the shortcut key F5 to start the Slide Show.

Click the ‘Start from First Slide’ icon. By clicking on the ‘Start from First Slide’, the presentation is now displayed as a Slide Show.
Narration only: In Slide Show mode, we can navigate between slides by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
Click on the left arrow key >> next slide >> next slide The Right arrow key takes us to the next slide one after the other.
Click on the right arrow key >> previous slide >> previous slide The Left arrow key takes us to the previous slide one before the other.
Right-click on the slide in the slideshow -> End Show. At any time, to exit the Slide Show, right-click for the context menu.

Then select the End Show option.

Click on the SlideShow -> Point to Start from First Slide Another method to start the Slide Show, is to click on the SlideShow menu in the menu bar.

And then click on the Start from First Slide option.

Press ESC key. Another way to exit the Slide Show is by pressing the ESCAPE key on the keyboard.
Narration only: Next, let’s learn how to use the Mouse Pointer as a pen.

Let’s enable this option and see how it works.

Click on the SlideShow >> Slide Show Settings. Click on the Slide Show menu in the menu bar and then on the Slide Show Settings option.
Point to Slide Show dialog box.

Go to Options -> check the boxes of Mouse Pointer visible and Mouse Pointer as Pen.

The Slide Show Settings dialog box appears.

Under Options, check the boxes for Mouse Pointer visible and Mouse Pointer as Pen.

Click OK Click OK to close the dialog box.
Press F5 key Now start the Slide Show by pressing the F5 key.
Move the cursor a little bit.

Narration only:

Notice that the Mouse Pointer now turned into a pen.

This option allows us to mark or draw on the presentation while in the Slide Show mode.

Draw a tick mark before the sentence ‘Benefit of Open Source’ Let’s draw a tick mark before the title ‘Benefit of Open Source’ in slide 1.

Press the left mouse button and drag on the slide, to do so.

Press the Spacebar We can also advance to the next slide by pressing the Spacebar or Enter key on the keyboard.
Press ESC key. Let’s exit the Slide Show by pressing the ESCAPE key.
Narration only: We can start the Slide Show from the current slide displayed in the Workspace, as well.
Go to Standard Toolbar ->

Point to Start from Current Slide icon

To do this, click on the ‘Start from Current Slide’ icon in the Standard Toolbar.
Click on the Slideshow menu -> Start from Current Slide

Point to the slide title in the slideshow.

Alternatively, you can do this by clicking on the SlideShow menu in the menu bar.

Then click on the Start from Current Slide option.

Notice that this time, the Slide Show started from the slide titled Table of Contents.

Press ESC Let’s exit the Slide Show.
Slide: Assignment Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
  • Open “Practice-Impress.odp” file
  • Use the Mouse pointer as a pen to draw a small diagram on any slide
Narration only: Next, let’s learn about Slide Transitions.
Slide: Slide Transitions


What are Slide Transitions?
  • Transitions are effects that are applied to slides as we move or
  • Transition from one slide to the next in a presentation
Click on the Slide Sorter tab.

Point to the slides.

Click on the Slide Sorter tab in the Workspace.

All the slides in the presentation are displayed here.

Narration only: Let’s learn how to add different transitions to each slide, in one go.
From the Slide Sorter view, select the first slide. From the Slide Sorter view, select the first slide.
Go to the Sidebar -> Slide Transition icon. Go to the Sidebar and click on the icon named Slide Transition.
Go the Slide Transitions sections >> Point to all transition effects.

Click on the Wipe.

In the Slide Transition section, we can see a list of transition effects available for use.

I will select the ‘Wipe’ transition.

Point to the transition effect in the Workspace.

Point to the checkbox of Automatic Preview.

Notice that the preview of the selected transition effect is displayed in the Workspace.

This is because the Automatic Preview checkbox is selected by default in the section.

Point to Modify Transitions. We can also modify the selected transition effect through the Modify Transitions subsection.
Go to Variant field -> Point to Bottom to top in drop-drown.

Click on the drop-down of Variant -> Point to other options.

By default, the Variant field is set to Bottom to top.

This means the transition starts from the bottom and moves to the top as it progresses.

By clicking on the drop-down, we can choose any other variant of your choice.

Click on the Sound drop-down-> ‘applause’

Now, let’s set a sound to this transition.

Click on the Sound drop-down and select ‘applause’.

Select the second slide.

Go to below the Slide Transition -> click on Wheel.

Go to Modify Transitions -> click on the Variant drop-down.

Choose the Clockwise 8 Spokes.

Click on the Sound drop-down -> choose ‘apert’

Now, let’s select the second slide.

Go to the Slide Transition section and click on the ‘Wheel’ transition.

Under the Modify Transitions subsection, click on the Variant drop-down.

Scroll and select ‘Clockwise 8 Spokes’.

Next, click on the Sound drop-down and select ‘apert’.

Preview appears automatically Again we see the preview of the transition effect we have made.
Narration only: We have now learnt how to animate and add a sound effect to a slide transition.
Narration only: Let us now learn how to create a presentation that advances automatically.
Modify Transitions -> check the ‘Loop until next sound’. Under the Modify Transitions subsection, check the ‘Loop until next sound’.
Point to Advance Slide.

Click on the radio button ‘Automatically after’ -> Point to 1 sec.

Now, under the Advance Slide subsection, click on the radio button ‘Automatically after.

Here notice that the time is set as 1 sec.

Click on the ‘Apply Transitions to all slides’ button. Lastly, click on the ‘Apply Transitions to all slides’ button.

Clicking on this button applies the same transition for all the slides.

Narration only: This way we need not add transitions for each slide individually.
Press F5 Let’s start the Slide Show now to see all of these customised effects.
Let the sideshow play >>

Let the presentation play for 3 slides.

Notice that the slides advance automatically with a time interval of 1 second.
Press ESC Let’s exit the Slide Show.
Slide: Slide Transitions. Now we’ll learn to create presentations
  • That advance automatically but with different display times for each slides
  • This is useful when the content of some slides in the presentation are longer
Select the second slide.

Go to the Slide Transitions -> Point Advance slide.

Go to Automatically after field -> enter the time ‘2’.

From the Workspace, let’s select the second slide.

Under the Slide Transitions section, go to the Advance Slide subsection.

In the Automatically after field, set the time to ‘2’ seconds.

Select the third slide.

Go to the Slide Transitions -> Point Advance slide.

Go to Automatically after field -> enter the time ‘3’.

Let’s select the third slide and set the time to ‘3’ seconds.
Select the 4th slide and follow the same steps as for the previous slides.

Change the time to ‘4’ seconds.

Let’s select the fourth slide and set the time to ‘4’ seconds.
Press F5 Let’s start the Slide Show.
Let it play for four slides. Notice that each slide is displayed for different lengths of time that we specified.
Press ESC Let’s exit the Slide Show.
Click the Normal tab.

Click on the ‘X’ icon.

Let’s return to that Normal tab and close the Slide Transition section.
Ctrl + S, click on ‘X’ icon Let us save all these changes for future use and then close the presentation file.
Narration only: With this, we have come to the end of this spoken tutorial.

Let us summarize.

Slide: Summary


In this tutorial, we have learnt about;
  • Slide shows
  • Slide Transitions
  • Automatic Slide Shows with fixed time interval
  • Automatic Slide Shows with different time intervals
Slide: Assignment


As an assignment:
  • Open “Practice-Impress.odp” file
  • Add Slide Transitions -
    • “Wheel” to slide 2
    • “Shape” to slide 3
    • With a “gong” sound
  • Create an automatic slideshow
Slide: About the Spoken Tutorial Project
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Slide: Acknowledgements The Spoken Tutorial project is funded by MHRD, Govt. of India.
Slide: Thank you Acknowledgement to DesiCrew This spoken tutorial was originally contributed by DesiCrew Solutions Pvt. Ltd. in 2011.

This is Arvind and Manish from IIT Bombay signing off. Thank you for watching.

Contributors and Content Editors

Manishnaik, Pravin1389