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Impress
Your Aim
to learn about:
Using Templates Adding Audio
Adding Video Slide Transition
Animation Running a Slide Show
LibreOffice Impress is a very useful software application which is used to create electronic
presentations. It allows the user to create dynamic presentations that may include animation,
narration, images, videos, graphs, diagrams, etc. to make the presentation interesting, engaging
and easier to understand. A presentation is made up of several slides.
In this chapter, you will learn about templates and how to insert audio and video in a presentation.
You will also learn about slide transition, custom animation and how to run a slide show.
USING TEMPLATES
A template is a set of predefined layouts that can be used to add a professional touch to your
presentation. LibreOffice Impress provides a variety of options such as predefined colour palettes,
fonts, backgrounds and formatting effects for designing and formatting a presentation. You can
also customize the existing templates or build your own templates.
Choosing a Template
Impress has a number of built-in templates you can choose from. You can use a template by
following the below steps:
Step 1 Click on the File menu.
Step 2 Hover the mouse pointer over the
New option. A submenu appears.
Step 3 Click on the Presentation option
from the submenu. The Select a
Template dialog box appears.
Step 4 Select a template.
Step 5 Click on the Open button. The
selected template will be applied to
your presentation.
Creating a new presentation
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