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Impress is LibreOffice's presentation program and is equivalent to Microsoft Office's Powerpoint. With Impress, you can create professional visual presentations that include graphics, pictures, videos, audio, spreadsheets, and charts. Impress has a presentation wizard that is very useful for setting up a new presentation and getting you started on the right track, and a main window that helps break the process down into tasks. The Presentation Wizard You can create a new blank presentation by going to File > New > Presentation. However, to start the presentation wizard, click on File > Wizards > Presentation. If you want to start with the wizard every time you create a new presentation, you can turn it on in the settings. While in Impress, click on Tools > Options > LibreOffice Impress > General, and check “Start with wizard” under New document. The first screen of the wizard (right) lets you pick from an empty presentation, a template, or open an existing presentation. If you select “From template”, there are two default templates in Impress. Both come with predefined slides. I recommend you have Preview checked as it allows you to see a visual of your presentation as you create it in the wizard. TIP: At any point in the wizard, you can click the Create button to create a new presentation. This allows you to use only the parts of the wizard you need.
Présentation (Impress) est, comme son nom l'indique, le programme de présentation de LibreOffice ; c'est l'équivalent de PowerPoint de Microsoft Office. Avec Présentation, vous pouvez créer des présentations visuelles incluant des graphismes, des images, des vidéos, de l'audio, des tableurs et des graphiques. Présentation comporte un Assistant Présentation qui est très utile pour vous aider à configurer une nouvelle présentation et vous faire démarrer du bon pied. Sa fenêtre principale vous aide à décomposer le processus tâche par tâche.
L'Assistant Présentation
Vous pouvez créer une nouvelle présentation vierge en allant à Fichier > Nouveau > Présentation. Cependant, pour démarrer l'Assistant Présentation, cliquer sur Fichier > Assistants > Présentation. Si vous voulez commencer par l'assistant chaque fois que vous créez une nouvelle présentation, vous pouvez l'activer. Pendant que vous êtes dans Présentation, cliquez sur Outils > Options > LibreOffice Impress > Général et cochez « Démarrer avec l'Assistant » sous Nouveau document.
Le premier écran de l'assistant (à droite) vous permet de choisir entre une présentation vierge, un modèle ou l'ouverture d'une présentation existante. Si vous choisissez « À partir d'un modèle », il y a deux modèles par défaut. Les deux viennent avec des diapositives pré-définies. Je vous suggère de cocher Aperçu, puisqu'ainsi vous voyez à quoi resemblera votre présentation pendant sa création dans l'assistant.
ASTUCE : Vous avez la possibilité à tout moment dans l'assistant de cliquer sur le bouton Créer pour créer une nouvelle présentation. Cela vous permet d'utiliser uniquement les parties de l'assistant dont vous avez besoin.
Click Next » to move to the second screen of the wizard. On this screen you can pick from many different backgrounds for your presentation. You can change the background for individual slides later, but this will become the basic background for your presentation. You will also want to select the output medium for the presentation - normally screen - but other options are available should you need them. Click Next » to move to the third wizard screen. You can pick a slide transition for changing from one slide to the next. There are many different transitions to choose from. When you select a transition, you get a preview on the effect in the preview window. You can also adjust the speed of the transition. You can change the transition for individual slides later, but the transition, along with the background, is one of the things that create consistency in your presentation. On this screen you can also pick the presentation type. “Default” advances the elements and slides through mouse clicks or the keyboard. “Automatic” allows you to set each slide to advance after a certain amount of time. The choice will depend on the presentation and is beyond the scope of this article. Click Next » to move to the fourth wizard screen. Here you can give a topic, company name (or your name if your presentation is not for a company), and the ideas behind your presentation. The information you use here will plug into your opening slide.
Click Next » to move to the fifth wizard screen. If you selected a template on the first screen of the wizard, you can use this screen to preview each of the slides after your changes. You can select whether a slide will be included in the presentation or not. Check “Create summary” to create a summary of your slide.
SIDEBAR: You can always use the « Back button to move back and change elements of your presentation. Click on the Create button, and Impress will create the slides for your new presentation.
The Main Window
The main window for Impress (above) is divided into three sections, the Slide pane, the Workspace pane, and the Tasks pane. You can hide the Slide and Tasks panes by clicking the X in the upper corner of each pane. To show the panes again use View > Slide Pane or View > Tasks Pane. Alternatively, you can use the Hide/Show markers (circled in red in the image) to hide and show the panes.
The Slide Pane
The Slide pane shows thumbnails of all the slides in your presentation in the order in which they will appear in the presentation. In the Slide pane, you can add, delete, copy, paste, move, duplicate, rename, or hide slides. Clicking on a slide in the Slide pane places it in the Workspace pane where you can change and modify it.
The Workspace Pane
The Workspace pane is the main work area for editing slides. You have five tabs in the Workspace pane.
Normal View
Normal View is where you make changes to individual slides. Here you can add images, modify and add text, animation effects, and more.
Outline View
The outline view displays an outline of all the text in the default text boxes on each slide. Each slide is numbered. You can use the outline view to proof and change the text on your slides, as well as add text to the slides. The slide names are not included in the outline.
Notes View
You can use the Notes View to add notes to individual slides. You can change the size of the note box under the slide by clicking on the border and dragging the handles. The notes will not show in the presentation, but you can print them and use them during your presentation or as handouts.
Handout View
In Handout View, you can setup how your handout of the presentation will print. If you select Layout in the Tasks pane, you can set the number of slides that show on each page of the handout (up to 9 slides per page). You can also use this view to determine what information will print on the handouts. Slide Sorter View
The Slide Sorter view works much like the Slide pane but gives you more space to work. You can add, delete, move, copy, paste, duplicate, rename, and hide slides. You can also work with groups of slides by selecting more than one slide.
The Tasks Pane
The Tasks pane has five sections. You expand a section by clicking on the section name. You can only expand one section at a time.
Master Pages
Here you define the page style for your presentation. Impress contains many predefined master pages you can use. You can modify the look of a master page using styles. A single presentation can contain more than one master page, allowing you to use more than one visual style in the presentation.
Layouts
The prepackaged layouts are shown here. You can select a layout - and use it as it is or modify it. Unfortunately, you cannot save custom layouts to the layout lists.
Table Design
Standard table layouts are shown here. You always have the option of changing the layout, and the table will behave much like a table in Calc.
Custom Animation
With custom animations, you can control when and how elements appear on the slides. You have many different options that help create the visual effects you need as you give your presentation. Don't go overboard here unless you have a good reason. While animations can make your presentation visually pleasing and interesting, they can also make your presentation look unprofessional and overwhelming. On the other hand, if you need to make an emphasis on a certain point, custom animations can help you accomplish such emphasis.
Slide Transition
The Slide Transition section gives you access to changing how one slide replaces the next. You have the choice of many different transitions as well as the speed of the transition. If you use automatic transition, you can also control how long the slide will display.
This has been a quick overview to get you started working in Impress. I encourage you to begin to play with the different views, sections, and layouts to get a feel for how they work and what you can do with them. Next time we will begin work on editing slides, adding text, and adding graphics to our slides.