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Creating The First Slide: Layouts Section of The Tasks Pane

The document provides instructions for creating and modifying slides in a presentation using OpenOffice Impress. It discusses: 1. Creating the initial title slide by selecting a layout from the Tasks pane and adding a title. 2. Inserting additional slides which involves repeating the process of selecting a layout. 3. Modifying slide elements by removing or adding elements like pictures and text, as well as changing slide properties by modifying the slide master.

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Creating The First Slide: Layouts Section of The Tasks Pane

The document provides instructions for creating and modifying slides in a presentation using OpenOffice Impress. It discusses: 1. Creating the initial title slide by selecting a layout from the Tasks pane and adding a title. 2. Inserting additional slides which involves repeating the process of selecting a layout. 3. Modifying slide elements by removing or adding elements like pictures and text, as well as changing slide properties by modifying the slide master.

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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 pre-packaged 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.
If you do not know the names for the pre-packaged layouts, you can use the tooltip feature. Position the
cursor on an icon in the Layout section (or on any toolbar icon) and its name will be displayed in a small
rectangle.
If the tooltips are not enabled, you can enable them. From the main menu, select Tools > Options >
OpenOffice.org > General > Help and mark the Tips checkbox. If the Extended tips checkbox is also
marked, you will get more detailed tooltip information, but the tooltip names themselves will not be
provided.
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.

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.

Choosing a slide layout


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.

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.
Changes to any of the pre-packaged layouts can only be made using View > Normal, which is the
default. Attempting to do this by modifying a slide master may result in unpredictable results and
requires extra care as well as some trials and errors.

1. Remove any element on the slide that is not required.


a. Click the element to highlight it. (The green squares show it is highlighted.)
b. Press the Delete key to remove it.

Deleting an element of a slide


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.

2. Add any elements to the slide that you do need.


a. Adding pictures to the clipart frame, if your chosen layout includes one:
i.
Double-click the picture within the frame. The Insert picture dialog box opens.
ii.
Browse to the location of the picture you want to include. To see a preview of the picture,
check Preview at the bottom of the Insert picture dialog box.
iii. Select the picture and click Open.
iv.
Resize the picture as necessary. Follow the directions in the Caution note below.
b. Adding pictures from graphic files to places other than the clipart frame:
i.
Insert > Picture > From File. The Insert picture dialog box opens.
ii.
Browse to the graphic file. To see a preview of the picture, check Preview at the bottom
of the Insert picture dialog box. Select a picture and click Open.
iii. Move the picture to its location.
iv.
Resize the picture, if necessary.

3. Adding 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 (see Outline view).
Step 4: To create additional slides, repeat steps 13.

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.
OOo uses three interchangeable terms for this one concept. Master slide, slide master, and master page
all refer to a slide that is used to create other slides. This book, however, will use only the term slide
master, except when describing the user interface.
Impress has five pre-packaged slide masters, found in the Master Pages section of the Tasks pane. You can also
create and save additional slide masters. See Chapter 2 for information on creating and modifying 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.
1.
2.
3.
4.

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.

Renaming slides
Right-click on a thumbnail in the Slides pane or the Slide Sorter and choose Rename Slide from the pop-up
menu. In the Name field, delete the old name of the slide and type the new name. Click OK to save the change.

Custom animations
If you know how to add a custom animation to a slide and wish to do so, do it now. Custom animations are
found on the Tasks pane. This is an advanced technique and is explained in Chapter 9 (Slide shows).

Slide transitions
Your first slide show should probably have the same slide transition for all slides. Setting Advance slide to On
mouse click is the default and a simple setting. If you want each slide to be shown for a specific amount of
time, click Automatically after and enter the number of seconds. Click Apply to all slides. Transition choices
are found on the Tasks pane. For more information about slide transitions, see Chapter 9 (Slide Shows).

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