libreoffice presentation

What is Presentation:

The Presentation is a collection of individual slides that contain information on a topic. LibreOffice Presentations are commonly used in business meetings and for training and educational purpose.

Introduction LibreOffice Impress –

Impress is also a powerful presentation program of LibreOffice. It’s very similar to Microsoft’s PowerPoint. You can create slides that contain many different elements, including text, bulleted and numbered lists, table, chart and graphical objects as ClipArt, drawings etc., It also includes a spelling checker, a thesaurus, text style and background styles. Impress can handle both Microsoft’s PowerPoint format (pptx) as well as its own open standard format called open document presentation format (.odp) which is internationally recognized.

Element of Impress Interface –

Slide Pane: It displays thumbnail picture in your presentation in the order in which they will be shown unless you change the slide show order. By using slide pane several addition operations can be performed as you can add new slides, hide any slide, copy and paste, Move any slide to another place etc.

Workspace:

The workspace shown in middle of the Impress window with five views: Normal, Outline, Notes, Handout and Slide Sorter.

Sidebar:

Sidebar normally opens by default on the right side of the Impress window. You can select View Menu>>Sidebar from the Menu bar to display it. Sidebar contains different Impress property sections. You can open only one section by Clicking on the Icons.

Slides: Slide is a content page of Impress which completes a page to be printed along with notes pages. It is the place where you can type or insert the content about a presentation, color it, assign a theme and style etc., to make the presentation attractive.

Title bar: This bar appears at the top of the documents & displays name of the file as well as minimize, restore, maximize, and close buttons are available at the right side of this bar for controlling the window. When the Presentation is not yet named, you will see default name Untitled 1

Menu bar:

A Group of commands with 10 menus as File, Edit, view, Insert, Format, Slide, Slideshow, Tools, Window and Helps that allows the user to perform tasks. It is located just below the Title bar.

Toolbar: The collection of buttons (usually with icons) that provide shortcuts to tasks, typically located at the below of the menu bar, which facilitate you to make your presentation according to your requirement. You can show or hide these toolbars by clicking Views Menu>Toolbars.

Status bar: This bar appears at the button of the screen that shown information about the presentation like page number, word and character count, Page style, language, Insert mode, Selection mode, document status. You will see Digital Signature, Object Information View Layout, Zoom slider with Zoom Percentage.

Slide Show: The continuous Display of images, text or shapes with a certain transition or animation either sequentially or at random.

Placeholder: A placeholder is a box with a dotted outline, designed for the placement of content of the slide. This placeholder is most commonly used for text. You will see a prompt within the placeholder such as “Click to add text”.

Design Template: A Design template acts like a designer and decorator for the slides. You use a number of theme Templates and colors.