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Introduction

LibreOffice is a fully functional office suite. LibreOffice embeds several applications that make a complete Free and Open Source Office suite.

ICT Competency

LibreOffice Impress is a tool for generic resource creation, used to create slide presentations

Educational application and relevance

LibreOffice Impress can be used to create slides that contain many different elements, including text, bullets and numbers lists, tables, charts, and a wide range of graphic objects such as clip art, drawings and photographs. Impress also includes a spelling checker, a thesaurus, text styles, and background styles, to communicate information in simple and powerful ways. Slides are often used in training programs and in teaching to quickly and simply communicate ideas through points.

Version

Version: 5.2.2.2

Build ID: 1:5.2.2-0ubuntu1~trusty0

CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default;

Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group

Using KDE Development Platform 4.13.3

This application is free and licensed under the GNU Public License.

Configuration

This tool has no specific configuration requirements. It is available as a part of Ubuntu operating system.

Overview of Features

LibreOffice Impress lets you create professional slide shows that can include charts, drawing objects, text, multimedia and a variety of other items. We can even import and modify Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. On-screen slide shows, animation, slide transitions and multimedia are a few of the techniques you can use to make presentation more exciting.

Other similar applications

Sozi - Sozi is another free and open source application that allows you to create a vector graphics (.svg) file with text and images to create and present non-linear presentations with relations, zooming into details etc. Sozi- Sozi is an open-source browser-based presentation software using SVG and JavaScript to play animated presentations.

'MS Office power point - Microsoft PowerPoint, part of the Microsoft Office Suite, is similar to LibreOffice Impress.

Google Office App - Google Slides, part of Google Drive , is an online presentations app that allows you to show off your work in a visual way.

Development and community help

This tool is developed by LibreOffice.org and supports the continuous development of the application. More detail please visit this site LibreOffice.org

Working with the application

Functionalities

Overview of the LibreOffice Impress is part of the Ubuntu distribution. This can be opened from Applications → Office → LibreOffice Impress.

	File:Bulltes and Numbers.png	Step 1- When we open the LibreOffice Impress application, it will show the window like this. You can click the cursor on "click to add title" and type the title of the information you want to enter. And then you can click the cursor on "click to add text" and type the information you want to present.	Step 2- To add the bullets and numbers to text information, choose Format - Bullets and Numbering. you can also select the different symbols of bullets and numbers here.
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Step 3 - To add images - Go to the insert menu in menu bar and click on images and select the image which you want to add. alternatively you can click on the image icon in text field. You can move the curser around that, and it will show the option to 'Insert Image', 'Insert Table', 'Insert Audio and Video' and 'Insert Graph'.	Step 4 - Insert Weblink- Place the text cursor in the document at the point where you want to insert the hyperlink or select the text that you want to put the hyperlink on. Select Hyperlink command from the Insert menu

Step 5- Custom animation - Opens the Custom Animation from Task panel on the right side the working window. Alternatively choose Slide from Menu Bar and then click on 'Custom Animation'. There will be varieties of styles to add, you can choose	Step 6- Master slide - Impress comes with a collection of slide masters. These slide masters are shown in the Master Pages section of the task panel on the right side the working window, move the mouse curser around there and click on Master page. There will be many master page template you can see and select anyone which you want to add.

File formats for creation

LibreOffice Impress saves files in an .Odp (standing for Open Document Presentation) format. The ODP is an open format, conforming to open standards.

Saving the file

After completing editing, need to save the file. Under Menu bar, go to FILE and then click on Save. Under selected Folders, pick a path and file folder, and then name the file and click SAVE.

Export and publishing files

You can export a LibreOffice Impress file to many other formats, including PDF (for printing), HTML (as a web page), JPEG (image) etc.

Advanced features

Hide a Slide: There are certain situations where you just need to show a few slides of a bigger presentation, or omit certain slides to certain audiences. In these cases, its possible to hide certain slides from showing in the ‘slide show’ mode.
Slide Transition / Sound Effects
Change Master Layout Background Colours/ Patterns
Bullets/ Numbering

Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Go to Ubuntu Software System and search and download. This is part of the custom distribution 16.04, Kalpavriksha.
From Terminal	sudo apt-get install libreoffice
From the web	https://www.libreoffice.org/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice

The application on mobiles and tablets

In Android mobile you can install LibreOffice Impress remote through the Google Playstore

Ideas for resource creation

It is best to do this after you have developed an outline, because the outline will determine some of the requirements for the appearance of the slides. For example:

What colour combinations (background and text) will look good and also be easy for your audience to read?
Would a picture help your audience understand the contents better?
Do you want particular text and a picture to appear on all the slides? For example a company name and logo.
Would the audience benefit from having the slides numbered so that they can quickly refer to one of them?
Do you want a background graphic or gradient? If so, you need to pick something that does not interfere or clash with content such as the colours used in charts.
Will you need one slide master or more than one? Will one slide design suit all of the content? You can change the appearance of slides as you develop the presentation, but planning ahead will save you time in the long run.

References

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+| style="width: 50%;" |{{ext-img|450px|[[File:Bulltes and Numbers.png]]}}
+| style="width: 50%;" |Step 1- When we open the LibreOffice Impress application, it will show the window like this. You can click the cursor on "click to add title" and type the title of the information you want to enter. And then you can click the cursor on "click to add text" and type the information you want to present.
+| style="width: 50%;" |Step 2- '''To add the bullets and numbers''' to text information, choose Format - Bullets and Numbering. you can also select the different symbols of bullets and numbers here.
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-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 1- To open the application : Application – office- and select and click libre office Impress. Now you can see the display as above.
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-Slide setting -from the right side corner from the layout we can select the slide layout which we want
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-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 2- Font setting - In the properties tab, you can select the character like font style and font size which you want
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-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 3 - To add background images - Go to the insert menu in menu bar and click on images and select the image which we want to display to background
+| style="width: 50%;" |Step 3 - '''To add images''' - Go to the insert menu in menu bar and click on images and select the image which you want to add. alternatively you can click on the image icon in text field. You can move the curser around that, and it will show the option to 'Insert Image', 'Insert Table', 'Insert Audio and Video' and 'Insert Graph'.
-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 4 - Slide transition- From the right side corner we can select the slide transition like flying ,crawling text from right to left and left to right and many other transitions. When you present the slides using slide show, the slide will transition as per this configuration
+| style="width: 50%;" |Step 4 - '''Insert Weblink'''- Place the text cursor in the document at the point where you want to insert the hyperlink or select the text that you want to put the hyperlink on. Select Hyperlink command from the Insert menu
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-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 5- Custom animation - the text  can appear like flying rolling Etc. and we can select the time to appear. You can configure the entrance, exit, speed of text. You can chose Automatic preview to preview the new or edited effects on the slide.
+| style="width: 50%;" |Step 5- '''Custom animation''' - Opens the Custom Animation from Task panel on the right side the working window. Alternatively choose Slide from Menu Bar and then click on 'Custom Animation'.  There will be varieties of styles to add, you can choose
-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 6- Master slide - Impress comes with a collection of slide masters. These slide masters are shown in the Master Pages section of the Tasks pane. This section has three subsections:
-Used in This Presentation, Recently Used,and Available for Use.
-Click the expand marker (usually a downward-pointing  triangle or+sign) next to the name of a subsection to expand it and show thumbnails of the slides. Click the collapse marker to collapse the subsection to hide the thumbnails
+| style="width: 50%;" |Step 6- Master slide - Impress comes with a collection of slide masters. These slide masters are shown in the Master Pages section of the task panel on the right side the working window,  move the mouse curser around there and click on Master page. There will be many master page template you can see and select anyone which you want to add.
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-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 7- Gallery- Graphics in the Gallery are grouped by themes,such as Bullets, Rulers, and 3D Effects.The left pane of the gallery window lists the available themes. Click on a theme to see its images displayed in the right pane of the Gallery dialog.
-| style="width: 50%;" |Step 8- Navigation-
-Escape Key;Moves the focus to the first slide.
-Arrow key;Moves the focus to the next slide.
-Spacebar;Makes the slide with focus the current slide
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