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You can work with slides in the Slide Sorter view just as you can in the Slide pane.
 
You can work with slides in the Slide Sorter view just as you can in the Slide pane.

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The main Impress window has three parts: the Slides pane, the Workspace, and the Tasks pane. Additionally, several toolbars can be displayed or hidden during the creation of a presentation.

Impress main window
Main window of Impress.

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Slides pane

The Slides pane contains thumbnail pictures of the slides in your presentation, in the order they will be shown (unless you change the order, as described in Chapter 9). Clicking a slide in this pane selects it and places it in the Workspace. While it is there, you can apply any changes desired to that particular slide.

Several additional operations can be performed on one or more slides in the Slides pane:

  • Add new slides at any place within the presentation after the first slide.
  • Mark a slide as hidden so that it will not be shown as part of the slide show.
  • Delete a slide from the presentation if it is no longer needed.
  • Rename a slide.
  • Copy or move the contents of one slide to another (copy and paste, or cut and paste, respectively).

It is also possible to perform the following operations, although there are more efficient methods than using the Slides pane as you will see in this chapter.

  • Change the slide transition following the selected slide or after each slide in a group of slides.
  • Change the sequence of slides in the presentation.
  • Change the slide design. (A window opens allowing you to load your own design.)
  • Change slide layout for a group of slides simultaneously. (This requires using the Layouts section of the Tasks pane.)

Task pane

The Task pane has four sections:

  • Master pages: Here you define the page style for your presentation. Impress contains five pre-packaged master pages (slide masters). One of them—Default—is blank, while the rest have a background.

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  • Layout: Twenty pre-packaged layouts are shown. You can choose the one you want, use it as it is or modify it to your own requirements. At present it is not possible to create custom layouts.
  • Custom Animation: This section contains a variety of animation effects that can be applied at any time to selected elements of a slide.
  • Slide Transition: Fifty-six transitions are available, including No Transition. You can select the transition speed (slow, medium, fast). You can also choose between an automatic or manual transition, and for how long you want the selected slide to be shown (automatic transition only).

Workspace

The Workspace has five tabs: Normal, Outline, Notes, Handout, and Slide Sorter. These five tabs are called View Buttons. There are also many toolbars that can be used during slide creation; they are revealed by selecting them with View > Toolbars. The actual Workspace section is below the View Buttons. This is where you assemble the various parts of your selected slide.

Each view is designed to ease the completion of certain tasks. In summary:

  • Normal view is the main view for creating individual slides. Use this view to format and design slides and to add text, graphics, and animation effects.
  • Outline view shows topic titles, bulleted lists, and numbered lists for each slide in outline format. Use this view to rearrange the order of slides, edit titles and headings, rearrange the order of items in a list, and add new slides.
  • Notes view lets you add notes to each slide that are not seen when the presentation is shown.
  • Slide Sorter view shows a thumbnail of each slide in order. Use this view to rearrange the order of slides, produce a timed slide show, or add transitions between selected slides.
  • Handout view lets you print your slides for a handout. You can choose one, two, three, four, or six slides per page from Task pane > Layouts. Thumbnails can be re-arranged in this view by dragging and dropping them.

Normal view

There are two ways to place a slide in the Slide Design area of the Normal view: clicking the slide thumbnail in the Slides pane or using the Navigator.

To open the Navigator, click the Navigator button in the Standard Toolbar Nav-icon.jpg and select a slide by scrolling down the Navigator list until you find the one you want and then double-click it. See this section for more about using the Navigator.

Outline view

Outline view contains all of the slides of the presentation in their numbered sequence. Only the text in each slide is shown. Slide names are not included.

Outline view serves at least two purposes.

  1. Making changes in the text of a slide:
    • You can add or delete text in a slide just as you can in the Normal view.
    • You can move the paragraphs of text in the selected slide up or down by using the up and down arrow buttons (Move Up or Move Down) on the Text Formatting toolbar).
    • Arrow buttons
      Arrow buttons.

    • You can change the outline level for any of the paragraphs in a slide using the left and right arrow buttons (Promote or Demote).
    • You can both move a paragraph and change its outline level using a combination of these four arrow buttons.
  2. Comparing the slides with your outline (if you have prepared one in advance). If you notice from your outline that another slide is needed, you can create it directly in the Outline view or you can return to the Normal view to create it, then return to review all the slides against your outline in the Outline view. If a slide is not in the correct sequence, you can move it to its proper place.
    1. Click the slide icon of the slide you wish to move.
    2. Drag and drop it where you want it.

Outline view
Outline view.

Notes view

Use the Notes view to add notes to a slide:

  1. Click the Notes tab in the Workspace.
  2. Select the slide to which you will add notes.
    • Double-click the slide in the Slide pane, or
    • Double-click the slide's name in the Navigator.
  3. In the text box below the slide, click on the words "Click to add notes" and begin typing.

You can resize the notes text box using the green resizing handles and move it by placing the pointer on the border, then clicking and dragging. To make changes in the text style, press the F11 key to open the Styles and Formatting window.

Notes view
Notes view.

Slide Sorter view

The Slide Sorter view contains all of the slide thumbnails. Use this view to work with a group of slides or with only one slide.

Slide Sorter view
Slide Sorter view.

Change the number of slides per row, if desired:

  1. Check View > Toolbars > Slide View to show the Slide view toolbar.
  2. Slide view toolbar
    Slide sorter and Slide view toolbars.

  3. Adjust the number of slides (up to a maximum of 15).
  4. After you have adjusted the number of slides per row, View > Toolbars > Slide View will remove this toolbar from view.

To move a slide in a presentation using the Slide Sorter:

  1. Click the slide. A thick black border is drawn around it.
  2. Drag and drop it to the location you want.
    • As you move the slide, a black vertical line appears to one side of the slide.
    • Drag the slide until this black vertical line is located where you want the slide to be moved.

To select a group of slides, use one of these methods:

  • Use the Control (Ctrl) key: Click on the first slide and, while pressing Control, select the other desired slides.
  • Use the Shift key: Click on the first slide, and while pressing the Shift key, select the final slide in the group. This selects all of the other slides in between the first and the last.
  • Use the cursor: Click on the first slide to be selected. Hold down the left mouse button. Drag the cursor to the last slide thumbnail. A dashed outline of a rectangle forms as you drag the cursor through the slide thumbnails and a thick black border is drawn around the selected slides. Make sure the rectangle includes all the slides you want to select.

To move a group of slides:

  1. Select the group.
  2. Drag and drop the group to their new location. The same vertical black line appears to show you where the group of slides will go.
Documentation note.png Selection of a group of slides works in a rectangular fashion. Slides that do not fall within a rectangular area cannot be grouped.

You can work with slides in the Slide Sorter view just as you can in the Slide pane.

To make changes, right-click a slide and do the following, using the pop-up menu:

  • Add a new slide after the selected slide.
  • Delete or rename the selected slide.
  • Change the Slide Layout.
  • Change the Slide Transition.
    • For one slide, click the slide to select it. Then add the desired transition.
    • For more than one slide, select the group of slides and add the desired transition.
  • Mark a slide as hidden. Hidden slides will not be shown in the slide show.
  • Copy or cut and paste a slide.
Right-click menu
Right-click menu.

Handout view

Handout view is for setting up the layout of your slides for a printed handout. In the Tasks pane, choose Layouts. You can then choose to print one, two, three, four, or six slides per page.

Handout view
Handout view.

To print a handout:

  1. Select the slides using the Slide Sorter. (Use the steps listed in Selecting a group of slides.)
  2. Select File > Print or press Control+P to open the Print dialog.
  3. Select Options in the bottom left corner of the Print dialog.
  4. Check Handouts and click OK.
  5. Click OK to close the Print dialog.

Toolbars

The various Impress toolbars can be displayed or hidden by clicking View > Toolbars and selecting from the menu. You can also select the icons that you wish to appear on each toolbar. For more information, refer to Chapter 4 (Menus and Toolbars) in the Getting Started guide.

Many of the toolbars in Impress are similar to the toolbars in OOo Draw. Refer to the Draw Guide for details on the functions available and how to use them.

Navigator

The Navigator displays all objects contained in a document. It provides another convenient way to move around a document and find items in it. The Navigator button is located on the Standard toolbar. You can also display the Navigator by choosing Edit > Navigator on the menu bar or pressing Ctrl+Shift+F5.

The Navigator is more useful if you give your objects (pictures, spreadsheets, and so on) meaningful names, instead of leaving them as the default "Object 1" and “Picture 1" shown in the illustration below.

Navigator
Navigator.

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