Using Impess - Looking at the Options -1

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Last time we created our first slide (see last post if your unsure or haven't done this).  Also, there were a number of tabs in the main area to have a look at.  These add extra useful parts for the creator of the presentation.

The 'Normal' tab is where the slides are presented for creating and editing.
The 'Outline' tab shows the slides as thumbnails (tiny pictures) with the titles alongside
The 'Notes' tab displays any notes the presenter may which to add which are not seen on the slideshow/presentation
Predictably, the 'Handout' tab is for creating and editing a handout which can be generated to for presentation participants to take away as a hard copy.
Finally, the 'Slide Sorter', no prizes for guessing what this baby does (allows you to order  the slides to your preference of displaying them).  Now if you have checked these out while, going through the above list, you will notice the the 'Outline' tab does not have a right hand area sectioned off (Tasks area).

The remaining tabs do have the 'Tasks' area.  You have seen the 'Tasks' available from a 'Normal' perspective, so check out the remaining 'Tasks' on the 'Notes', 'Handout' and 'Slide Sorter' tabs.

What you will find is that they are all the same, allowing you to replicate your presentation effects over all (though how you could create transition effects on a handout is rather amusing).

That's it for this post

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Using Impress

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In the last post, we looked at the basics of starting an Impress presentation.  You may remember that, the Impress module of OpenOffice.org is the equivalent of Microsoft's PowerPoint.

In this post we will be creating a slideshow.  I am going to make this slideshow, purely for tutorial purposes.

The slideshow will be about computers and their parts and will be using pictures from various sources, just for illustration purposes.

The background is from an OpenOffice.org extension package called 'Modern-Templates.oxt' and is available here.

There are a few others contained in the extension for Impress.  To use it, just double left click the file and (assuming you have OpenOffice.org installed) it will install itself and show you a list of all the extensions you  have installed in OpenOffice.org.  To view the templates, you need to open Impress and look at the new templates individually.

OK open impress and go with the setttings as described in the last post.

The Presentation Screen with a single slide.  Note the Slide List on the left of the main work area and the Tasks area on
the right of the main work area

From the above picture of the presentation work area, you can see the menu and toolbars at the tops, the Slide list on the left, main work area,  and the Tasks area.  Below the Slides and Main area are the tool selection bar.

Note also the 5 tabs above the main area window (Normal, Outline, Notes, Handout and Slide Sorter)

Currently the Tasks area is showing the Layouts section.  Left click on the the other options

• Master Pages
• Table Design
• Custom Animation
• Slide Transition

The tool selection bar has a selection of options for creating your individual slides from scratch (or adding a little to existing slide layouts), for example various lines, shapes, connectors, symbols etc. and the ability to arrange them on the slide, by rotation, alignment etc.

Save your basic slideshow presentation as slidetest and we will continue in the next post

OK That's enough for now and we'll delve deeper next time

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