Formatting a presentation
- Parts of the main Impress window
- Working with views
- Creating a new presentation
- Formatting a presentation
- Slide masters and styles
- Working with slide masters
- Adding and formatting text
- Creating tables
- Adding graphics, spreadsheets, charts, comments and other objects
- Setting up and running the slide show
Now put your presentation together based on your outline.
Creating the first slide
The first slide is normally a title slide. Decide which of the layouts will best suit your purposes for this first slide: simplicity would be appropriate in this instance. You can use the prepackaged layouts available in the Layout section of the Tasks pane. Suitable layouts are Title Slide (which also contains a section for a subtitle) or Title Only, however all but one layout (the blank one) contains a title section, so you are not restricted to the two layouts described here.
Select a layout in the Layout section of the Tasks pane by clicking on it: it appears in the Workspace. To create the title, click on “Click to add title” (assuming the Blank Slide layout was not used) and then type the title text. Adjustments to the formatting of the title can be done by pressing the F11 key, right-clicking the Title presentation style entry, and selecting Modify from the pop-up menu.
If you are using the Title Slide layout, click on Click to add text to add a subtitle. Proceed as above to make adjustments to the formatting if required.
Inserting additional slides
The steps for inserting additional slides are basically the same as for selecting the title page. It is a process that has to be repeated for each slide. Unless you are using more than one slide master, your only concern is the Layouts section of the Tasks pane.
First insert all the slides your outline indicates you will need. Only after this should you begin adding special effects such as custom animation and slide transitions.
Step 1: Insert a new slide. This can be done in a variety of ways—take your pick.
- Insert > Slide.
- Right-click on the present slide, and select Slide > New Slide from the pop-up menu.
- Click the Slide icon in the Presentation toolbar.
Step 2: Select the layout slide that bests fits your needs.
Step 3: Modify the elements of the slide. At this stage, the slide consists of everything contained in the slide master, as well as the chosen layout slide, so this includes removing unneeded elements, adding needed elements (such as pictures), and inserting text.
- Remove any element on the slide that is not required.
- Click the element to highlight it. (The green squares show it is highlighted.)
- Press the Delete key to remove it.
- Following are instructions to add elements to a slide, such as adding pictures to the clipart frame, if the chosen layout includes one:
- Double-click the picture within the frame. The Insert picture dialog opens.
- Browse to the location of the picture you want to insert. To see a preview of the picture, check Preview at the bottom of the Insert picture dialog.
- Select the picture and click Open.
- Resize the picture as necessary. Follow the directions in the Caution note below.
- To add pictures from graphic files to places other than the clipart frame, follow the instructions below:
- Insert > Picture > From File. The Insert picture dialog opens.
- Locate the graphic file. To see a preview of the picture, check Preview at the bottom of the Insert picture dialog. Select a picture and click Open.
- Move the picture to its location.
- Resize the picture, if necessary.
- To add OLE objects (Object Linking and Embedding) is an advanced technique covered in Chapter 7: Inserting Spreadsheets, Charts and Other Objects of the Impress Guide.
- Add text to a slide: If the slide contains text, click on Click to add an outline in the text frame and then type your text. The Outline styles from 1 to 10 are automatically applied to the text as you insert it. You can change the outline level of each paragraph as well as its position within the text using the arrow buttons on the Text Formatting toolbar.
Sometimes you will accidentally select the wrong layout slide or decide to change it. This is safe and does not cause loss of the contents already on the slide. |
Step 4: To create additional slides, repeat steps 1–3.
Modifying the appearance of slides
To change the background and other characteristics of all slides in the presentation, you need to modify the slide master or choose a different slide master.
A Slide Master is a slide with a specified set of characteristics which is used as the beginning point for creating other slides. These characteristics include the background, objects in the background, formatting of any text used, and any background graphics.
Impress has five prepackaged slide masters, found in the Master Pages section of the Tasks pane. You can also create and save additional slide masters.
Modifying the slide show
Now review the entire presentation and answer some questions. Run the slide show at least once before answering them. You might want to add some questions of your own.
- Are the slides in the correct order? If not, some of them will need to be moved.
- Would an additional slide make a particular point clearer? If so, another slide needs to be created.
- Would some custom animations help some of the slides? (Advanced technique.)
- Should some of the slides have a different slide transition than others? The transition of those slides should be changed.
- Do some of the slides seem unnecessary? Delete the affected slide or slides after checking if they are indeed unnecessary.
Once you have answered these and your own questions, you should make the necessary changes. This is done most easily in the Slide Sorter view. If you need one or more new slides, create them using the steps listed in “Inserting additional slides”.
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