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Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on slide master and slide design in LibreOffice Impress

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In this tutorial we will learn how to apply: Backgrounds for slides, Layouts for slides

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Here we are using GNU/Linux as our operating system and LibreOffice Suite version 3.3.4.

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Background refers to all the colors and effects applied to the slide, which are present behind the content.

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LibreOffice Impress has many background options that help you create better presentations.

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You can even create your own custom backgrounds.

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Let’s open the presentation Sample-Impress.odp.

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Let’s create a custom background for our presentation.

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We shall also apply this background to all the slides in the presentation.

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We shall use the Slide Master option to create this background.

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Any change made to the Master slide is applied to all the slides in the presentation.

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From the Main menu, click View, select Master and click on Slide Master.

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The Master Slide appears.

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Notice, that the Master View toolbar is also visible. You can use this to create, delete and rename Master Pages.

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Notice, that two slides are displayed now.

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These are two Master Pages that have been used in this presentation.

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From the Tasks pane, click on Master Pages.

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The Used in This Presentation field displays the Master slides used in this presentation.

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The Master slide is like a template.

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

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First, from the Slides pane, let’s select Slide 1.

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Let’s apply a white background to this presentation.

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From the Main menu, click on Format and click Page.

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The Page Setup dialog box appears.

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Click the Background tab.

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From the Fill drop down menu, select the option Bitmap.

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From the list of options, select Blank and click OK.

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The slide now has a white background.

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Notice that the existing text color doesn’t show up very well against the background.

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Always choose a color that is visible distinctly against its background.

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Let’s change the color of the text to black. This will make the text clearly visible against the white background.

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First select the text.

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From the Main menu, click Format and select Character.

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The Character dialog box appears.

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From the Character dialog box, click Font Effects tab.

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From the Font Color drop-down, select Black.

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Click OK.

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The text is now black in color.

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Now, let’s apply a color to the slide.

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Right-click on the slide for the context menu and click Slide and Page Setup.

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From the Fill drop down menu, select the option Color. Select Blue 8 and click OK.

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Notice, that the light blue color we selected is applied to the slide.

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Pause this tutorial and do this assignment. Create a new Master Slide and apply the color red as the background.

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Let’s now learn how to add other design elements to this presentation.

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For example, you can add a logo to your presentation.

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Look at the Basic Shapes toolbar in the bottom of your screen.

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You can use it to draw a variety of basic shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, triangles and ovals.

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Let’s draw a rectangle in the Title area of the slide.

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From the Basic Shapes toolbar click on Rectangle.

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Now move the cursor to the top left corner of the slide, in the Title area.

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You will see a plus sign with a capital I.

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Hold the left mouse button and drag to draw a small rectangle.

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Now release the mouse button.

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You have drawn a rectangle!

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Notice the eight handles on the rectangle.

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Handles or control points, are the small blue squares that appear on the sides of the selected object.

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We can use these control points to adjust the size of the rectangle.

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As you hover your cursor over the control point, the cursor changes to a double-sided arrow.

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This indicates the directions in which the control point can be moved to manipulate the basic shape.

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Let’s enlarge this rectangle so that it covers the title area completely. <Pause>

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We can format these shapes too!

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Right-click on the rectangle to view the context menu.

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Here you can choose various options to modify the rectangle.

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Click on Area. The Area dialog box appears.

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In the Fill field, from the drop-down menu, choose Color.

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Choose Magenta 4 and click OK.

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The color of the rectangle has changed.

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The rectangle has now covered the text.

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To make the text visible, first select the rectangle.

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Now right-click to open the context menu.

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Click on Arrange and then Send to back.

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The text is visible again!

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Here the rectangle has moved behind the text.

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In the Tasks pane, click on the preview of the Master Page.

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Right-click and select Apply to All Slides.

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Close the Master View by clicking on the Close Master View button.

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The formatting changes made in the Master are applied to all the slides in the presentation now.

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Notice, that the rectangle is also displayed in all the pages.

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Let us learn to change the layout of the slide

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What are Layouts? Layouts are slide templates that are pre-formatted for position of content with place holders.

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To view the slide layouts, from the right panel, click Layouts.

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The layouts available in Impress are displayed.

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Look at the layout thumbnails. It gives you an idea of how the slide will appear after the layout has been applied.

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There are layouts with titles and two-column formats, layouts where you can position text in three columns and so on.

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There are also blank layouts.  You can apply a blank layout to your slide and then create your own layouts.

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Let’s apply a layout to a slide.

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Select the slide Potential Alternatives and delete all text.

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Now, from the layout pane on the right hand side, select title 2 content over content.

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The slide now has three text boxes and a title area.

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Notice, that the rectangle we inserted using the Master page, is still visible.

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This rectangle can only be edited using the Master slide.

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The settings in the Master slide overrides any formatting changes or layouts applied to slides.

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Let’s enter content in these boxes now.

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In the first text box type: Strategy 1 PRO: Low cost CON: slow action

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In the second text box type: Strategy 2 CON: High cost PRO: Fast Action

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In the third text box type:  Due to lack of funds, Strategy 1 is better.

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You can similarly choose the layout type that is most suited to your presentation.

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This concludes this tutorial. In this tutorial we learnt how to apply; Backgrounds for slides, Layouts for slides

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Here is an assignment for you.

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Create a new Master Slide.

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Create a new background.

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Change the layout to title, content over content.

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Check what happens when you apply a Layout to a Master slide.

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Insert a new slide and apply a blank layout.

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Use text boxes and add columns to it.

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Format these text boxes.

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Enter text in these boxes.

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Watch the video available at the following link. It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project

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