Learn LibreOffice Impress

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 custom distribution.

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.

'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.

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Step 1- When you 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. After completing the first slide, if you want take new slide, see the left side panel of the window and right click on slide, then choose new slide. Alternatively, you can also select any slide from from slide list and then press ENTER.	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
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Step 5- Custom animation - Opens the Custom Animation from task panel on right side of 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 Page - Impress comes with a collection of master pages. Click on the master pages section from task panel on right side of the working window, move the mouse 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

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

Installation

Method of installation	Steps
From Ubuntu software Centre	Go to Ubuntu Software Centre 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

References

1. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/a/ac/IG40-ImpressGuideLO.pdf
2. https://www.libreoffice.org/
3. https://help.libreoffice.org/Impress/Impress_Features