Getting started with OpenOffice Impress
Published on 19. October 2022
128 pages
978-2-490275-80-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is intended for people who want to improve their slide manipulation skills to express ideas better, both orally and in writing. Impress enables you to present information with customized effects. You will see the working environment, the pages layout, the master slide, the styles and other features that can enhance your knowledge. To be effective with the slideshow, you will study different ways to manage text, pictures, videos, tables and other points. Your communication will be more relevant through the customized animations and transitions. Presenting data is within everyone's reach and IMPRESS is the ideal application to achieve this purpose. Enjoy your reading. ABOUT THE AUTHORRémy Lentzner has been an IT trainer since 1985. Specialized in mastering office automation tools, he supports companies in the professional training of their employees. Self-taught, he has several computer books to his credit.
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Content
- Intro
- Chapter 1The working environment
- 1.1 At Startup
- 1.1.1 Modifying the toolbars
- 1.1.2 Creating new slides
- 1.1.3 Text entry in a slide
- 1.1.4 Displaying with the Slide Sorter
- 1.2 Creating a summary slide
- 1.2.1 Creating a hyperlink for a summary title
- 1.2.2 Changing the summary background color
- 1.3 The Slide Show
- 1.3.1 Starting the Slide Show
- 1.3.2 The Slide Show settings
- 1.3.3 Using the pen
- 1.4 Saving the presentation
- 1.5 Printing a presentation
- 1.6 Export to PDF
- 1.7 Creating a presentation template
- 1.8 Customizing the toolbars
- Chapter 2The Slide Master
- 2.1 Using the Slide Master
- 2.1.1 Accessing the master
- 2.1.2 Modifying the Slide Master
- 2.1.3 Exiting the Slide Master
- 2.1.4 Inserting a logo to all slides
- 2.1.5 The master elements
- 2.2 The header and the footer
- 2.3 Handouts
- 2.3.1 Defining the handout layout
- 2.3.2 Printing the handout
- Chapter 3The styles
- 3.1 Styles and formatting
- 3.1.1 Creating a new style
- 3.1.2 Modifying a style
- 3.1.3 Applying a style to elements
- 3.1.4 Styles inside the Slide Master
- 3.2 The slide types
- Chapter 4Inserting objects
- 4.1 Inserting and manipulating a picture
- 4.1.1 Reducing the picture size
- 4.1.2 Aligning pictures
- 4.2 Inserting a shape
- 4.2.1 Drawing a line
- 4.2.2 Inserting a text
- 4.3 Inserting media
- 4.3.1 Inserting a video file
- 4.3.2 Controlling the start of the video
- 4.3.3 Inserting a sound file
- 4.4 Inserting a table
- 4.4.1 Inserting rows or columns
- 4.4.2 Merging cells
- 4.4.3 Table designing
- 4.4.4 Inserting a Calc table
- 4.5 Creating a chart in a slide
- 4.6 Interaction with objects
- 4.7 Inserting a hyperlink
- 4.7.1 Creating a Web hyperlink
- 4.7.2 Editing a hyperlink
- Chapter 5Transitions and animations
- 5.1 Visual transitions
- 5.1.1 From one slide to another
- 5.1.2 Running continuously
- 5.1.3 Customizing a Slide Show
- 5.2 Animations
- 5.2.1 Types of animation
- 5.2.2 Start-up effects
- 5.3 Practical workshops
- 5.3.1 Workshop 1: Entrance effects
- 5.3.2 Workshop 2 : appearance and disappearance
- 5.3.3 Emphasis effects
- 5.4 Path effects
- 5.4.1 Adding pictures outside the slide
- 5.4.2 Drawing a path
- Chapter 6Communicating better
- 6.1 The message
- 6.1.1 General principles
- 6.1.2 The slides organization
- 6.1.3 Colors
- 6.1.4 Ideas and bullet points
- 6.1.5 Transitions and animations
- 6.1.6 Distributing the material
- 6.2 Problems to anticipate
- 6.3 Making a good presentation
- 6.3.1 The message and the massage
- 6.3.2 Relaxed communication
- Chapter 7Settings
- 7.1 General Settings
- 7.2 The view settings
- 7.3 The grid settings
- 7.4 The print parameters
- 7.5 Customization settings
