Which type of slide layout
appears by default while
opening LibreOffice
Impress?
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Answer:ibreOffice Impress: Slide Layouts and AutoLayout Text Boxes
Version 4.2.8.2
We have spent several tutorials on graphics, including the Themes and the Gallery, and that is all to the good since Impress is a graphical program to some degree. But it also is a way of presenting text content, and it worth a little time to develop that further. Impress does some things with text that resemble other programs like Writer, but it also does some things differently so it is worth a moment to discuss these specifics.
AUTOLAYOUT TEXT BOXES
The first thing you notice working with text in Impress is that all text has to be inside of some kind of container. That means that before you can enter text you need something to hold it. In many cases these containers come with the slide type you choose, and these are called AutoLayout Text Boxes. They are what you see when you insert a new slide and see a message “Click to add Title” or “Click to add text”
AutoLayout Text Boxes
AutoLayout Text Boxes
This is the most common type of slide, and it has one AutoLayout Text box for the Slide title, and one for the Slide Body. These boxes, like all of the AutoLayout Text Boxes, are controlled by the Presentation Styles. So if you want to change the appearance for all of the slides in your presentation, you would do it by modifying the Presentation Styles. Open the Styles and Formatting window on the right, and Presentation Styles will be the second icon. The Title of the slide is governed by the Title style, which is pretty clear, but the body is governed by the Outline style. The reason for this is that the default for most people most of the time is to use bullet points and sub-points, and these are best controlled through a hierarchical Outline style. The major exception to this rule is the very first slide, which is the called the Title Slide. In this slide you also have a slide title, which would be the title of your presentation, but instead of a body you have a subtitle, and of course that is controlled by the Subtitle style. For our discussion here they are the only three Presentation Styles we need.
SLIDE LAYOUTS
If you look at the slide types you can see that they are primarily concerned with the arrangement of AutoLayout Text Boxes, When you open the Properties window on the right, you will see Layouts, and when you mouse-over each layout you can see what it is called.
Slide Layouts
Slide Layouts
This Dialog has 3 tabs:
Position and Size
Rotation
Slant and Corner Radius
There is also a simplified version on the right sidebar. If you have your box selected as above, when you click on the Properties icon on the right you will see it.
Position and Size on Sidebar
Position and Size on Sidebar
Note: Many options in the right side-bar only appear when you have something selected or are in the correct area to turn them on.
Now, to understand how this works in the more complete F4 version of the Dialog, there is a base point on each slide that corresponds to one of the corners, the middle of each side, or the center of the slide. By default the base point is the tip left corner, but you can change it and see how the measurements change. The Position X is the horizontal distance from the left side, and Position Y is the vertical distance from the top. Or put another way, it measures the displacement from the top left corner of the slide.
The advantage to using this Dialog it that it lets you make very fine adjustments, down to one-hundredth of an inch in the U.S., and a similar amount in Metric for people in civilized countries. ☺ The size section gives you similarly fine control over resizing, and by default has Keep ratio checked, which will preserve the aspect ratio, and does the same as holding down the Shift key when using the mouse.
The Rotation tab lets you rotate the text box, and thus the text inside. A pivot point for the rotation is specified, and by default will be the center of the box. But you can pivot around another point, like one of the corners, if you prefer. You can rotate using mouse to click-and-drag around the dial, but for finer control you can type in the number of degrees of rotation in the Rotation Angle box.
The third tab, Slant and Corner Radius, is really more applicable to Drawing objects, not to Text boxes. But as we have discussed, LibreOffice likes to reuse its menus and dialogs as much as possible, so it appears here even though it is not useful for Content boxes.
So, the standard slides with the AutoLayout boxes give you a lot of possibilities, particularly when you can move, resize, or rotate the boxes as needed. It is worth taking the time to get to know all of them, and to experiment with their use. But sometimes you just need to get out of the AutoLayout box, and that is where our next Tutorial will take us.
Explanation:
Answer:ibreOffice Impress: Slide Layouts and AutoLayout Text Boxes
Version 4.2.8.2
We have spent several tutorials on graphics, including the Themes and the Gallery, and that is all to the good since Impress is a graphical program to some degree. But it also is a way of presenting text content, and it worth a little time to develop that further. Impress does some things with text that resemble other programs like Writer, but it also does some things differently so it is worth a moment to discuss these specifics.
AUTOLAYOUT TEXT BOXES
The first thing you notice working with text in Impress is that all text has to be inside of some kind of container. That means that before you can enter text you need something to hold it. In many cases these containers come with the slide type you choose, and these are called AutoLayout Text Boxes. They are what you see when you insert a new slide and see a message “Click to add Title” or “Click to add text”
AutoLayout Text Boxes
AutoLayout Text Boxes
This is the most common type of slide, and it has one AutoLayout Text box for the Slide title, and one for the Slide Body. These boxes, like all of the AutoLayout Text Boxes, are controlled by the Presentation Styles. So if you want to change the appearance for all of the slides in your presentation, you would do it by modifying the Presentation Styles. Open the Styles and Formatting window on the right, and Presentation Styles will be the second icon. The Title of the slide is governed by the Title style, which is pretty clear, but the body is governed by the Outline style. The reason for this is that the default for most people most of the time is to use bullet points and sub-points, and these are best controlled through a hierarchical Outline style. The major exception to this rule is the very first slide, which is the called the Title Slide. In this slide you also have a slide title, which would be the title of your presentation, but instead of a body you have a subtitle, and of course that is controlled by the Subtitle style. For our discussion here they are the only three Presentation Styles we need.
SLIDE LAYOUTS
If you look at the slide types you can see that they are primarily concerned with the arrangement of AutoLayout Text Boxes, When you open the Properties window on the right, you will see Layouts, and when you mouse-over each layout you can see what it is called.
Slide Layouts
Slide Layouts
This Dialog has 3 tabs:
Position and Size
Rotation
Slant and Corner Radius
There is also a simplified version on the right sidebar. If you have your box selected as above, when you click on the Properties icon on the right you will see it.
Position and Size on Sidebar
Position and Size on Sidebar
Note: Many options in the right side-bar only appear when you have something selected or are in the correct area to turn them on.
Now, to understand how this works in the more complete F4 version of the Dialog, there is a base point on each slide that corresponds to one of the corners, the middle of each side, or the center of the slide. By default the base point is the tip left corner, but you can change it and see how the measurements change. The Position X is the horizontal distance from the left side, and Position Y is the vertical distance from the top. Or put another way, it measures the displacement from the top left corner of the slide.
The advantage to using this Dialog it that it lets you make very fine adjustments, down to one-hundredth of an inch in the U.S., and a similar amount in Metric for people in civilized countries. ☺ The size section gives you similarly fine control over resizing, and by default has Keep ratio checked, which will preserve the aspect ratio, and does the same as holding down the Shift key when using the mouse.
The Rotation tab lets you rotate the text box, and thus the text inside. A pivot point for the rotation is specified, and by default will be the center of the box. But you can pivot around another point, like one of the corners, if you prefer. You can rotate using mouse to click-and-drag around the dial, but for finer control you can type in the number of degrees of rotation in the Rotation Angle box.
The third tab, Slant and Corner Radius, is really more applicable to Drawing objects, not to Text boxes. But as we have discussed, LibreOffice likes to reuse its menus and dialogs as much as possible, so it appears here even though it is not useful for Content boxes.
So, the standard slides with the AutoLayout boxes give you a lot of possibilities, particularly when you can move, resize, or rotate the boxes as needed. It is worth taking the time to get to know all of them, and to experiment with their use. But sometimes you just need to get out of the AutoLayout box, and that is where our next Tutorial will take us.
Explanation: