Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Slide Show creation in LibreOffice Impress.
In this tutorial we will learn about creating: Slide Shows
Slide Transitions and
Automatic Slide Shows
This tutorial is recorded using Ubuntu Linux OS version 18.04 and LibreOffice Suite version 6.3.5
Slide Shows are usually Used to present slides before an audience
It can be shown on a desktop, laptop or projector
Slide Shows occupy the entire computer screen
Presentations cannot be edited in the Slide Show mode
Slide Shows are for display purpose only
Let's open our presentation Sample-Impress.odp.
This file has been provided to you in the Code files link on this tutorial page
Please download and extract the file
Make a copy and then use it for practicing
Let’s learn how to view this presentation as a Slide Show.
Locate the ‘Start from First Slide’ icon in the Standard Toolbar.
Notice the tooltip on the icon displays the shortcut key F5 to start the Slide Show.
By clicking on the ‘Start from First Slide’, the presentation is now displayed as a Slide Show.
In Slide Show mode, we can navigate between slides by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.
The Right arrow key takes us to the next slide one after the other.
The Left arrow key takes us to the previous slide one before the other.
At any time, to exit the Slide Show, right-click for the context menu.
Then select the End Show option.
Another method to start the Slide Show, is to click on the SlideShow menu in the menu bar. And then click on the Start from First Slide option.
Another way to exit the Slide Show is by pressing the ESCAPE key on the keyboard.
Next, let’s learn how to use the Mouse Pointer as a pen.
Let’s enable this option and see how it works.
Click on the Slide Show menu in the menu bar and then on the Slide Show Settings option.
The Slide Show Settings dialog box appears.
Under Options, check the boxes for Mouse Pointer visible and Mouse Pointer as Pen.
Click OK to close the dialog box.
Now start the Slide Show by pressing the F5 key.
Notice that the Mouse Pointer now turned into a pen.
This option allows us to mark or draw on the presentation while in the Slide Show mode.
Let’s draw a tick mark before the title ‘Benefit of Open Source’ in slide 1.
Press the left mouse button and drag on the slide, to do so.
We can also advance to the next slide by pressing the Spacebar or Enter key on the keyboard.
Let’s exit the Slide Show by pressing the ESCAPE key.
We can start the Slide Show from the current slide displayed in the Workspace, as well.
To do this, click on the ‘Start from Current Slide’ icon in the Standard Toolbar.
Alternatively, you can do this by clicking on the SlideShow menu in the menu bar. Then click on the Start from Current Slide option.
Notice that this time, the Slide Show started from the slide titled Table of Contents.
Let’s exit the Slide Show.
Pause this tutorial and do this assignment.
Open “Practice-Impress.odp” file
Use the Mouse pointer as a pen to draw a small diagram on any slide
Next, let’s learn about Slide Transitions.
What are Slide Transitions?
Transitions are effects that are applied to slides as we move or
Transition from one slide to the next in a presentation
Click on the Slide Sorter tab in the Workspace.
All the slides in the presentation are displayed here.
Let’s learn how to add different transitions to each slide, in one go.
From the Slide Sorter view, select the first slide.
Go to the Sidebar and click on the icon named Slide Transition.
In the Slide Transition section, we can see a list of transition effects available for use. I will select the ‘Wipe’ transition.
Notice that the preview of the selected transition effect is displayed in the Workspace.
This is because the Automatic Preview checkbox is selected by default in the section.
We can also modify the selected transition effect through the Modify Transitions subsection.
By default, the Variant field is set to Bottom to top.
This means the transition starts from the bottom and moves to the top as it progresses.
By clicking on the drop-down, we can choose any other variant of your choice.
Now, let’s set a sound to this transition. Click on the Sound drop-down and select ‘applause’.
Now, let’s select the second slide.
Go to the Slide Transition section and click on the ‘Wheel’ transition.
Under the Modify Transitions subsection, click on the Variant drop-down.
Scroll and select ‘Clockwise 8 Spokes’.
Next, click on the Sound drop-down and select ‘apert’.
Again we see the preview of the transition effect we have made.
We have now learnt how to animate and add a sound effect to a slide transition.
Let us now learn how to create a presentation that advances automatically.
Under the Modify Transitions subsection, check the ‘Loop until next sound’.
Now, under the Advance Slide subsection, click on the radio button ‘Automatically after.
Here notice that the time is set as 1 sec.
Lastly, click on the ‘Apply Transitions to all slides’ button.
Clicking on this button applies the same transition for all the slides.
This way we need not add transitions for each slide individually.
Let’s start the Slide Show now to see all of these customised effects.
Notice that the slides advance automatically with a time interval of 1 second.
Let’s exit the Slide Show.
Now we’ll learn to create presentations
That advance automatically but with different display times for each slides
This is useful when the content of some slides in the presentation are longer
From the Workspace, let’s select the second slide.
Under the Slide Transitions section, go to the Advance Slide subsection.
In the Automatically after field, set the time to ‘2’ seconds.
Let’s select the third slide and set the time to ‘3’ seconds.
Let’s select the fourth slide and set the time to ‘4’ seconds.
Let’s start the Slide Show.
Notice that each slide is displayed for different lengths of time that we specified.
Let’s exit the Slide Show.
Let’s return to that Normal tab and close the Slide Transition section.
Let us save all these changes for future use and then close the presentation file.
With this, we have come to the end of this spoken tutorial. Let us summarize.
In this tutorial, we have learnt about;
Slide shows, Slide Transitions, Automatic Slide Shows with fixed time interval, Automatic Slide Shows with different time intervals
As an assignment: Open “Practice-Impress.odp” file
Add Slide Transitions - “Wheel” to slide 2 , “Shape” to slide 3, With a “gong” sound
Create an automatic slideshow
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