
Chapter 5: Creating Presentations With Impress
6. To insert another slide, click the area next to the tab at the bottom of the screen. Assign a
name for the new slide and choose a layout (in the context menu of the slide tab, click
Modify Slide).
Note: Do not assign a name like “
Slide2
.” If the order of the slides needs to be changed later, the label might not
describe the content of this slide. Clear, descriptive names like “
Overview
” or “
Introduction
” are more
useful.
Insert additional slides, as necessary, from the insert menu on the main toolbar (a long
click may be needed). The corresponding tabs appear at the bottom of the screen. Click
the tab of the slide to edit, e.g. Overview, and then click the Outline View icon above the
vertical scroll bar.
Entering Text in the Outline View
To establish an outline, use the Outline View mode. Using the icons in the object bar,
promote or demote an outline point one level, or move it up or down in the hierarchy. The
icons in the main toolbar can also be used to determine which outline levels are to be
displayed.
In the Outline view, all slides in the presentation document are listed hierarchically, and the
title of each slide is preceded by a slide icon.
Enter the desired text and use the icons in the Main toolbar to structure the outline. Create a
subsection to a slide by placing the cursor at the start of the respective line and pressing the
Tab key. Use the Shift+Tab key combination to move the line up one level in the
hierarchy. After completing the edit of the presentation outline, click the Drawing View icon
(directly above the Outline View icon) to return to the normal view.
Changing the Slide Layout
Changing the slide layout can only be done while in the Drawing View (the first icon in the
vertical scroll bar). Double-click the tab of the slide to modify and select the desired layout
from the predefined layouts.
Designing Slides
Designing a slide can only be done in the Drawing View, and the Select tool must be
activated.
To change the font size and style of the title, for example, select it and assign new attributes
from the Font and Font Size fields in the Object bar.
Borders may be defined by clicking the paragraph to which to apply the border and defining
the attributes in the list boxes Line Width and Line Style.
To apply a uniform background and recurring elements (company name, subject) to all slides,
click the Master View icon to the left of the horizontal scroll bar. The default texts in the
master view may be safely ignored as these are not visible on the slides. The only text visible
on the slides is that which is entered by the user. Using the Text floating toolbar on the main
toolbar, a frame can be opened for background text.
Using the Styles and Formatting window is an excellent method for managing the appearance
the slides. Here is a step-by-step procedure:
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