What is OpenOffice
Impress?
OpenOffice Impress
is the
presentation software program that is
part of the free suite of software titles
Getting Started With OpenOffice
Impress
The first time you open
OpenOffice Impress
, the
Presentation Wizard
starts to assist you in beginning your first
presentation.
There are three options for your presentation
1.
Empty presentation
2.
From template
Slide Design and Output Options
OpenOffice Impress
comes with two free
backgrounds that you
may opt to use for your
presentation. These are
listed here in Step 2 of
the Presentation Wizard.
If you do not select one
of these backgrounds,
your presentation will
start with a blank, white
slide. This is the option
we will use for this
Slide Transitions and Slide Timings
Step 3 of the OpenOffice
Impress Presentation
Wizard offers the ability
to assign
slide transitions
and to
make your presentation
automatic by applying
timings to the slides.
Select the options now,
or you may choose to
add those selections at a
later time.
Section 1. This area of the screen is the Slides
pane, showing
thumbnail
views of all the slides in the
presentation.
Section 2. Each page of the
working area of the presentation is called a slide. New presentations
open with a blank slide in
normal view ready for editing.
Section 3. The area to the right is the Task pane l. Its contents vary
depending on the current task.
Initially, OpenOffice Impress
recognizes that you are just starting this
presentation and shows the
different
slide layouts
Different Slide Layout Options in OpenOffice Impress
● Choose the Slide Layout that Works Best
OpenOffice Impress offers many different
slide layouts for your presentation.
OpenOffice Impress Presentation Toolbar
Add New Slides, Slide Designs or Watch the Slide Show
The Presentation toolbar in OpenOffice Impress contains the buttons for new slide, slide design and viewing the slide show. It is located on the right side of the screen, next to the
Different Ways to View Slides in OpenOffice
Impress
The most commonly used toolbar, the
Standard toolbar is located at the top of the OpenOffice Impress window. It
contains the usual command icons such as New, Open, Cut, Copy, Paste and it even contains a really helpful icon to export your slide show directly to PDF format.
A second toolbar is located just under the Standard toolbar. It is the
Line and Filling toolbar. This handy toolbar allows you to quickly edit
OpenOffice Impress Drawing Toolbar
The Drawing toolbar is located at the bottom of the OpenOffice Impress main screen. This frequently used toolbar contains most of the tools you will use in creating your presentations. Some
Activity nº1
Draw in your notebook 5 buttons shown in
each of the three toolbars (standard; line
and filling and drawing) described in this
introduction, indicating what is their function
(
hint: to know the function, just leave the
OpenOffice Impress Slide Layouts
When you first open OpenOffice Impress, a
blank, white slide is shown. However, most likely, your presentation will begin with a Title slide.
There are several options for Title slides in OpenOffice Impress. The following three options are the most
commonly used, but not the only selections.
•slide with a title and a subtitle
•slide with a title only
Add a New Slide in OpenOffice Impress
Click the Slide button on the Presentation toolbar on the right side of the screen. Select a slide layout from the thumbnail
views shown in the
Title and Text Slide Layout in
OpenOffice Impress
The Title and Text slide is
probably the most commonly used slide layout in any presentation. It is also known as a bulleted list
slide, simply because it contains jot points listed as bullet points.
When each bullet point is typed, pressing the Enter key will produce a new bullet. This slide layout is used for short lists of related items.
Title and Two Text Boxes
Slide Layout in OpenOffice Impress
The Title and Two
Text Boxes slide
layout is used to
make
comparisons
of two different
Slides Pane in OpenOffice Impress
On the left of the OpenOffice Impress window, is the
Slides pane which shows miniature versions, or
thumbnail views of all your slides in the presentation. The slides are
numbered and you can easily move
Content Layout Slides in
OpenOffice Impress
Content layout slides are those that will
include items such as a spreadsheet, a
chart, clip art, a table or photos, to name a few items.
After choosing the type of content layout you want, simply
Chart Slide Layout in OpenOffice
Impress
Many presentations
include groups of data to make a point In most
cases, this data is much more effective when
expressed as a chart or graph, rather than as text.
Charts are just one of the types of content that can be easily added, using one of the content layout slides. The chart is
actually created using the companion program,
OpenOffice Calc, which is included in the free
Activity nº 2
Create your first presentation!
It must include at least five slides with the
following layouts: Title, Title and text,
Title and two boxes, Title and object (an
image) and Title and graph.
You can find the information you need in
Information you need for activity
nº2 (1)
1
stslide:
Title: London; subtitle: Now and then
2
ndslide:
Title: Some facts and History:
London is the capital city of the United Kingdom It is the largest city in the European Union
The
London Underground
is the oldest underground
railway network in the world
3
rdslide:
Title: History and Geography
Information you need for activity
nº2 (2)
● Founded by the Romans in 43 AD
● The Tower of London was built in the XIth Century
● The Great Fire lo London broke out in 1666
●bombing by the German Luftwaffe during World War II killed over
30,000 Londoners
●The River Thames is by far the largest river of the London area
●There are a few notable hills in Greater London, but none of them more than a few hundred feet high
●London has a temperate
oceanic climate
Information you need for activity
nº2 (3)
4
thslide:
Title: The London Eye. Include a picture of the London
Eye from the Internet
5
thslide:
Title: Non Uk citizens in London
Create and insert a graph with the following data:
2001 2010
India 172.162 248.000
Rep. Of
Ireland 157.285 110.000 Bangladesh 84.565 107.000
Normal View in OpenOffice
Impress
The Most Commonly Used Slide View
When you work on a presentation
using OpenOffice Impress, you will spend a great deal of the your time creating and editing slides in
Outline View of Slides in
OpenOffice Impress
Text Only Version of the Slides
For quick editing of your OpenOffice Impress
presentation, you may choose to work only with the text. In that case,
outline view is the answer. All the text of the slides is
listed in the form of an outline. No
Notes Pages in OpenOffice
Impress
Create Speaker Notes for the Presenter
Notes pages are for the speaker of the
presentation. A small
version of a single slide is shown on one page above a blank area for notes.
Each slide will have its own notes page. These notes do not show on the screen and can be printed out prior to the presentation for the speaker to use as
Handouts View in OpenOffice
Impress
Create Audience Handouts of Miniature Versions of
Your Slides
Handouts are similar to
slide sorter view, but are used for printing purposes only. You may choose
from several layouts for your printouts of the
Slide Sorter View in OpenOffice
Impress
Miniature Versions of Slides
Slide sorter view is
useful to quickly
rearrange your
slides. You can also
apply effects such
as
transitions
,
animations
or
Change Background Colors on
OpenOffice Impress Slides
Access Background Color Choices in
OpenOffice Impress
Background Colors are Found in Page Setup
To access the background color options you must access Page Setup. Right click on a blank area of the slide and choose Slide > Page Setup....
Solid Background Colors in OpenOffice
Impress
●
In the Page Setup
dialog box, click on the
Background
tab.
●
Under the Fill section,
click the drop down
arrow to reveal the
background choices.
●
Select
Color
Apply Background to One or All
Slides in OpenOffice Impress
Background Color Settings for One or All Slides?
The Page Settings dialog box prompts you to apply
Gradient Color Background Choices in
OpenOffice Impress
Select Gradient as the type of fill for the slide background.
Patterned Backgrounds for OpenOffice
Impress Slides
Patterned
backgrounds are
found under the
heading Hatching
in the drop down
list of fill options.
Choose one of the
types of
hatching
fills and then
choose a color for
the background
Use a Bitmap for a Background on Open
Office Impress Slides
The bitmap may be tiled or autofit to fill the whole slide depending on your preference.
•Tiling is the process of repeating the picture over and over to cover the
whole slide. This is usually done when the picture is very small.
•Autofit will stretch the bitmap to cover the whole slide. If the bitmap is
Activity nº3
1.
Open your presentation “London” and apply a
differente background to each slide
2.
You must use all the types of background listed
in the lesson:
a)
Pattern
b)
Gradient
c)
Solid fill
d)
Bitmap (both versions: tilled and autofit)
3.
Save as “London background”
Change Font Colors and Styles in
Open Office Impress
A Poorly Designed Slide
A poorly designed slide is one that is
difficult to read.
Make it easy for your audience to
follow your presentation by choosing font colors, sizes and
styles so that they have no problem reading your slides, no matter
where they are seated in the room.
Choose font colors that contrast
sharply with the background
Font styles also come into play. You
Use the OpenOffice Impress Font
Toolbar
1)Select the text you wish to change.
OpenOffice Impress Format Menu
You might hunt high and lo in
the menus for fonts, without
success. To change the text
in OpenOffice Impress you
need to look for the term
"character". Using the menu
to make font changes offers
more options than simply
using the font toolbar as in
the previous step.
Select Format >
Make Font Changes in OpenOffice
Impress
The Font Page
Font - Choose the font type from the selection of fonts installed on your computer.
Typeface - Depending on the font type you selected you may have the option for bold
and/or italics. (Not all fonts offer these
features).
OpenOffice Impress Font Effects
1)Underlining - Choose a style of underlining from single to double or dashed lines. Once the underlining option has been selected, the color option becomes active and you may choose the color of the line.
2)Strikethrough - Several different styles are available for the strikethrough option - single line, double line, X, or slashes. You can also choose to strike through single words only rather than the complete phrase, including spaces.
3)Font color - Select from a wide range of color options.
Font Position Options in
OpenOffice Impress
Position - Font position options include
superscript (for example - a2 + b2 = c2 ) and
subscript (for example - H2O )
Scaling - Scale the font larger or smaller by a percentage
Spacing - Expand the
Background Color Changes Affect
Font Color
OpenOffice Impress has a
neat feature that
automatically changes the
text color (if necessary) to a
selection that is optimal for
reading the text, when you
choose a different
background color. However,
any changes you have
made
manually
yourself,
by selecting a specific color
for the text will not be
Font Color Changes Automatically
With Background Color
Activity nº4
Open your presentation “London
background” and apply a different font to
each slide title.
Apply a different font colour to text in each
slide. Be careful with the colours you
choose!
Make the “XIth century” in slide nº 3 look like
XI
th
Underline the slide titles.
Give a relief effect to the titles of slides nº4
and 5
Slide Transitions in OpenOffice Impress
Presentations
The different visual motions you
see as one slide changes to
Slide Transition Task Panel in
OpenOffice Impress
Choose
Slide
Show > Slide
Transition...
from the menu.
This opens the
Slide Transition
Slide Transitions in OpenOffice
Impress
Preview and Choose a Slide Transition
1)Make sure the Automatic preview box is checked at the bottom of the task panel.
2)Scroll through the list of transitions shown.
3)Select a transition. A preview will show on the current slide. Keep
previewing until you find a transition that you like. To see a preview
again on the same slide, click on the Play button.
4)If you are happy with the selected transition, it will be applied
Choose a Speed and Sound for the
Slide Transition
OpenOffice Impress slide transition
speeds vary from slow to medium to fast. Most slide
show presentations use slow to medium as the transition
Apply a Transition to Individual or
Set Timings on Slides in
OpenOffice Impress
Advance Slides Automatismo in Open Office
Impress
1)Click on the
Automatically after box in the slide transition task pane.
2)Use the Up and
Down arrows to set the time that each slide will be on screen.
OpenOffice Impress Slide Shows
Watch a Complete Slide Show in Open
Office Impress
Watch the Slide Show from the Current Slide
There are two
methods to watch the slide show from the current slide to the end.
1) Select Slide Show > Slide Show from the menu.
OR
