Sidebar
Sidebar
The Sidebar has seven decks: To select the deck you wish to use, click on its icon on the right edge of the Sidebar.
Properties
This deck adapts to what is selected in the Workspace. In Figure 2, nothing is selected in the slide, so the deck shows a single panel of slide layouts. Clicking on a layout icon in the Sidebar applies that layout to the current slide. If you click on the text Click to add text in the slide, a text cursor appears on the slide, and the Properties deck changes to have two panels, one for text properties and one for paragraph properties. If a shape, picture, or table were on the slide and selected, panels appropriate for setting the properties of the selected object would appear.
Master Pages
On this deck, you define the page style for your presentation. It has three panels: Used in This Presentation, Recently Used, and Available for Use. Impress contains prepackaged Master Pages (slide masters). One of them—Default—is blank, and the rest have a background and styled text.
Custom Animation
A variety of animations for selected elements of a slide are listed. Animation can be added to a slide and later changed or removed. See Chapter 9 (Slide Shows) for an overview of how to add and customize animations.
Slide Transition
Many transitions are available, including No Transition, which makes the next slide simply replace the existing one. You can select the transition speed (slow, medium, fast). You can also choose between an automatic or manual transition, and how long the selected slide should be shown (automatic transition only).
Styles and Formatting
The Styles and Formatting deck is identical to the tool opened by the menu Format → Styles and Formatting. Impress documents have Graphics Styles and Presentation Styles. Graphics Styles are generally applied to drawn objects, setting properties like their fill color and line type, and images and Presentation Styles are applied to text, such as bullet points and title.
Gallery
The Gallery deck provides access to a variety of images, clip art, and sounds. These are stored in themes. You can add your own items and themes. The menu Tools → Gallery opens the same tool but places it by default above the Workspace, inconveniently shrinking the Workspace.
Navigator
The Navigator deck is identical to the tool opened by the menu View → Navigator or pressing Ctrl + ⇧ Shift + F5 . This allows you to move easily among the slides and select content such as shapes and objects. It is much easier to select objects if you give them meaningful names rather than using the default names like Shape1.
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