Openoffice Org 3 0 Impress Guide OpenOffice.org

2015-07-27

• Chapter 1 Introducing Impress
  • What is Impress?
  • Parts of the main Impress window
    • Slides pane
    • Tasks pane
    • Workspace
      • Normal view
      • Outline view
      • Notes view
      • Slide Sorter view
      • Handout view
    • Toolbars
    • Status Bar
    • Navigator
  • Creating a new presentation
    • Planning the presentation
    • Using the Presentation Wizard
  • Formatting a presentation
    • Creating the first slide
    • Inserting additional slides
    • Modifying the appearance of slides
    • Modifying the slide show
      • Renaming slides
      • Custom animations
      • Slide transitions
  • Running the slide show
• Chapter 2 Using Slide Masters, Styles, and Templates
  • Designing a presentation
  • What are slide masters?
  • What are styles? Why use them?
    • Presentation styles
    • Graphic styles
  • Working with slide masters
    • Creating slide masters
    • Applying a slide master
    • Loading additional slide masters
  • Modifying a slide master
  • Choosing and applying the background
    • Adding background objects
  • Modifying default text areas
    • Further modifications to the default text areas
  • Adding text to all slides
  • Working with styles
    • Creating graphics styles
      • Creating a new style using the Style dialog box
      • Creating a new style from a selection
    • Modifying styles
      • Updating a style from a selection
    • Applying styles
    • Deleting styles
    • Assigning styles to shortcut keys
  • Working with templates
    • Using templates supplied with OOo
    • Using templates from other sources
      • Installing templates using the Extension Manager
    • Setting a default template
      • Setting a custom template as the default
      • Resetting the default to OOo’s in-built Default template
    • Creating your own templates
    • Modifying a template
    • Organizing templates
      • Creating a template folder
      • Deleting a template folder
      • Moving a template
      • Deleting a template
      • Importing a template
      • Exporting a template
• Chapter 3 Adding and Formatting Text
  • Introduction
  • Working with text boxes
    • Using text boxes created from the Layout pane
    • Using text boxes created from the text box tool
    • Moving a text box
    • Resizing a text box
    • Deleting a text box
  • Inserting text
    • Pasting text
      • Pasting unformatted text
      • Formatting pasted text
    • Inserting special characters
    • Inserting non-breaking spaces and hyphens
  • Formatting text
    • Using styles to format text
      • Modifying a style
    • Selecting text
    • Formatting characters
      • Font page
      • Font Effects page
      • Position page
    • Formatting paragraphs
      • Indents and Spacing page
      • Alignment page
      • Tabs page
      • Asian Typography page
  • Creating bulleted and numbered lists
    • Creating lists in AutoLayout text boxes
    • Creating lists in other text boxes
    • Creating a new outline level
    • Changing the appearance of the list
      • Selecting the entries
      • Bullets, Numbering type and Graphics pages
      • Position page
      • Customize page
    • Changing the order or the outline level lines
  • Using tables
    • Creating a table
    • Modifying a table
      • Task pane options
      • Table toolbar
      • Table properties
      • Position and size
    • Deleting a table
  • Using fields
    • Inserting a field
    • Customizing fields
    • Tips on use of fields
  • Using hyperlinks
    • Editing text hyperlinks
    • Working with hyperlink buttons
• Chapter 4 Adding and Formatting Pictures
  • Introduction
  • Inserting pictures
    • Inserting a picture from a file
    • Inserting a picture from a scanner
    • Inserting a picture from the Gallery
  • Formatting pictures
    • Moving a picture
    • Resizing a picture
    • Rotating a picture
    • Formatting using the Picture toolbar
      • Applying filters
      • Changing the Graphics mode
      • Adjusting the color
      • Setting the object transparency
      • Adjusting the line, area and shadow settings
      • Cropping pictures
    • Deleting a picture
  • Creating an image map
  • Managing the Gallery themes
    • Adding images to the Gallery
    • Deleting images from the Gallery
    • Adding a new theme to the Gallery
• Chapter 5 Creating Graphic Objects
  • Introduction
  • The Drawing toolbar
  • Creating lines and shapes
  • Working with connectors
    • Managing glue points
  • Working with 3D shapes
  • Grouping shapes together
  • Arranging shapes
  • Flipping shapes
  • Aligning shapes
  • Alignment using the grid and snap guides
    • Using the grid
    • Using snap guides
  • Converting an object to a different type
  • Setting up interaction with a shape or image
  • Animating images
    • Creating an animation
      • Frame by frame animation
      • Animated image in one step
    • Other functions of the Animator
  • Using Fontwork
    • Using the Fontwork toolbar
    • Modifying Fontwork text as a shape
• Chapter 6 Formatting Graphic Objects
  • Introduction
  • Using graphics styles to format graphics
  • Formatting lines and shapes
  • Moving, resizing and rotating a graphic object
    • Moving graphic objects
    • Resizing graphic objects
    • Rotating graphic objects
  • Formatting lines
    • Creating line styles
    • Creating arrow styles
  • Formatting areas
    • Creating area fills
    • Colors
      • Creating colors
    • Gradients
      • Creating gradients
    • Hatching
      • Creating hatching patterns
    • Bitmaps
      • Creating and importing bitmaps
    • Formatting shadows
    • Transparency formatting
  • Formatting text
    • Text animation
  • Formatting connectors
• Chapter 7 Inserting Spreadsheets, Charts, and Other Objects
  • Using spreadsheets in Impress
    • Inserting a spreadsheet
    • Resizing and moving a spreadsheet
    • Moving around the spreadsheet
      • How a spreadsheet is organized
      • Moving the cursor to a cell
    • Entering data
    • Formatting spreadsheet cells
  • Inserting a chart
    • Creating a chart in AutoLayout
    • Creating a chart using the Insert Chart feature
    • Choosing a chart type
      • Chart types
    • Entering chart data
      • Opening a chart data window
      • Entering data
    • Formatting the chart
      • Adding or removing elements from a chart
      • Using the Format menu
      • Resizing and moving the chart
      • Moving chart elements
      • Changing the chart area background
      • Changing the chart graphic background
  • Inserting other objects
    • Movies and sound
    • OLE objects
      • Other OLE objects
    • Formulas
  • Inserting the contents of a file
• Chapter 8 Adding and Formatting Slides, Notes and Handouts
  • Introduction
  • Adding, renaming, and removing slides
    • Adding a new slide
    • Inserting a slide from another presentation
    • Duplicating a slide
    • Expanding a slide
    • Creating a summary slide
    • Renaming a slide
    • Deleting a slide
  • Creating slides from an outline
    • Sending an outline from Writer to Impress
    • Sending an autoabstract from Writer to Impress
    • Copying and pasting an outline
  • Modifying slides
    • Formating the slide or page area
    • Changing the background of a slide
    • Choosing a slide layout from the list
    • Choosing a slide master from the list
  • Adding and formatting notes
    • Formatting notes
      • Formatting the Notes page
      • Setting automatic layout options
      • Text formatting
      • Advanced Notes formatting
    • Printing notes
    • Exporting notes to PDF
  • Creating handouts
    • Changing the layout
    • Formatting handouts
      • Formatting the page
      • Setting automatic layout options
      • Moving thumbnails and adding graphics
    • Printing handouts
      • Exporting handouts to PDF
• Chapter 9 Slide Shows
  • Putting together a slide show
    • Choosing basic settings for a slide show
    • Hiding slides so they do not appear in a show
    • Showing slides in a different order
      • Setting up a custom slide show
      • Editing, deleting, or copying a custom slide show
  • Using slide transitions
    • Setting the timing of automatic slide changes
    • Applying a slide transition effect
    • Playing a sound throughout the presentation
    • Removing a transition effect
  • Using slide animation effects
    • Applying an animation effect
    • Starting an animation effect
    • Choosing additional properties of an animation effect
      • Example: Using multiple animation effects
      • Example: Setting up a motion path
    • Advanced animation effects
    • Removing animation effects
  • Using interactions
  • Running a slide show
    • Navigating using the right-click menu
• Chapter 10 Printing, e-mailing, exporting, and saving slide shows
  • Introduction
  • Quick printing
  • Controlling printing
    • Selecting printer options for a presentation
    • Selecting default print options
    • Printing in black and white on a color printer
  • Printing a brochure
  • Exporting to PDF
    • Quick export to PDF
    • Controlling PDF content and quality
      • General page of PDF Options dialog box
      • Initial View page of PDF Options dialog box
      • User Interface page of PDF Options dialog box
      • Links page of PDF Options dialog box
      • Security page of PDF Options dialog box
  • Exporting as a Flash file
  • Exporting as web pages (HTML files)
  • E-mailing a presentation
    • Digital signing of documents
  • Opening and saving a PowerPoint file
    • Saving an Impress file as a PowerPoint file
    • Opening a PowerPoint file in Impress
• Chapter 11 Setting Up and Customizing Impress
  • Choosing options that affect all of OOo
    • User Data options
    • Print options
    • Color options
    • Appearance options
  • Choosing options for Impress
    • General options
      • Text objects section
      • New document section
      • Settings section
      • Start presentation section
      • Compatibility section
    • View options
    • Grid options
      • Grid section
      • Resolution section
      • Snap section
      • Snap position section
    • Print options
  • Customizing the user interface
    • Customizing the menu font
    • Customizing menu content
      • Creating a new menu
      • Modifying existing menus
      • Adding a command to a menu
      • Modifying menu entries
    • Customizing toolbars
      • Creating a new toolbar
      • Adding a command to a toolbar
      • Choosing icons for toolbar commands
    • Customizing keyboard shortcuts
      • Saving changes to a file
      • Loading a saved keyboard configuration
      • Resetting the shortcut keys
      • Running macros from key combinations
  • Adding functionality with extensions
    • Installing extensions
    • Using extensions
      • Sun Presenter Console
      • Professional Template Pack II
      • Sun Presentation Minimizer
      • Template Changer
• Appendix A Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Introduction
  • Function keys for Impress
  • Other shortcut keys for Impress
  • Shortcut keys in the Normal View
  • Shortcut keys in slide shows
  • Navigating in the Slide Sorter
• Index