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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on  Presentation Notes in LibreOffice Impress.

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In this tutorial, we will learn about  Notes and how To print them.

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Notes are used for two purposes:

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As additional material or references, on Each slide, for the audience.

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To help the presenter with reference notes when presenting the slides to the audience.

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Open the presentation Sample-Impress.odp.

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From the Slides pane on the left, choose the slide titled Overview.

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Change the text to.

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To achieve 30% shift to OpenSource software within 1 year

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To achieve 95% shift to OpenSource Software within 5 years

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Let’s add some notes to the page, so that, when it is printed, the reader will have some reference material.

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To edit the notes, click on the Notes tab.

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A Notes text box is displayed below the slide. Here we can type the notes.

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Click on  Click to Add Notes.

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Notice that you can edit this box.

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In this text box type;

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Management would like to explore cost saving from shifting to Open Source Software

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Open source software has now become a viable option to proprietary software.

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Open source software will free the company from arbitrary software updates of proprietary software. <Pause>

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We have created our first Note.

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Let us learn how to format the text in the Notes.

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Select the text.

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From top left corner of the Impress window, click on the Font Type drop-down, and select TlwgMono.

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Next, in the Font size drop-down, select 18.

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On from same Task bar, let’s click on the Bullet icon. The text now has bullet points.

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Let’s now learn to create a Notes Master to set all notes in a standard format.

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From the Main menu, click  View and then click on  Master. Click  Notes Master.

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The Notes Master view appears.

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Notice, that two slides are displayed.

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This means, there is one Notes Master for each Master Slide used in the presentation.

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The Notes Master slide is like a template.

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You can set formatting preferences here, which are then applied to all the notes in the presentation.

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From the Slides pane, select the first slide.

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Click on the Notes place holder and select the text displayed on it.

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From top left corner of the Impress window, click on the Font Size drop-down, and select 32.

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From the Main menu, click Format and Character.

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The Character dialog box appears.

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Click on the Font Effects tab.

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Click the Font color drop-down and select Red. Click OK.

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Let’s add a logo to the notes.

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Let’s add a triangle.

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From the Drawing toolbar, click on Basic Shapes and select Isosceles Triangle.

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Insert the triangle on the top-left corner of the Notes text box.

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Select the triangle and right-click for the context menu. Click Area.

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The Area dialog box appears.

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Click on the Area tab.

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Click the Fill drop-down and click Color. Now choose  Blue 7.

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This formatting and logo will be the default for all the notes that are created.

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Click OK.

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In the Master View toolbar, click  Close Master View.

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In the Main pane, click the Notes tab.

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From the Slides pane on the left, choose the slide titled Overview.

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Notice, that the Notes are formatted as set in the Master Notes.

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Now, let’s learn how to re-size the Notes place holder and Slide place holder.

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Select the Slide Placeholder, press the left mouse button and move it to the top of the screen.

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This creates more space to re-size the Notes place holder.

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Now, click on the border of the Notes text place holder.

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Hold the left mouse button and drag it upward to increase the size.

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We have now learnt to re-size the placeholders as we require

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Now let us see how to print the notes.

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From the Main menu, click on  File and select Print.

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The  Print  dialog box appears

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From the list of printers, select the printer connected to your system.

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In the  Number of Copies  field enter 2.

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Click on  Properties  and under Orientation, select Landscape. Click Ok

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Under Print Document, select Notes from the drop down menu.

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Now select  LibreOffice impress  tab.

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Under Contents:

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Check the Slide Name Box.

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Check the Date and Time Box.

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Check the Original Color Box.

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Click  Print.

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If your printer settings are configured correctly, the slides must start printing now.

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This brings us to the end of this tutorial.

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In this tutorial, we learnt about Notes and how  To print them.

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Here is an assignment for you.

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Open a new presentation,

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Add the content in the notes place holder and

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Add a rectangle.

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Let the font of the content be 36 and Color it Blue.

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Color the rectangle with Green.

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Adjust the size of the notes place holdern comparison with the slide text holder.

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Print the notes in black and white in Portrait format.

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You need to print 5 copies of notes.

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