Impress (03) - A Simple Document Pt1

We start to create a new LibreOffice Impress document from all the default settings.

The Title layout is selected and two autolayouts (also known as placeholders) are seen in the workspace. On the top we have the title placeholder and below that, we have a text placeholder. These placeholders are there to help keep formatting consistent throughout your document. The placeholders will not show up in the slideshow presentation or printed notes.

Clicking in a placeholder puts us into edit mode where we can type in and text and change the formatting. With LibreOffice 5.0 and up we can use the formatting in the sidebar, but the text formatting toolbar is still available for those who prefer to use it.

We type some text into the title placeholder and show that making changes to text in Impress is the same as making changes to text in writer, we first need to select some text, the apply the changes to the selected text.

We show how to reposition a text box, how to resize the textbox and how to use snap to grid. Then we look at how to rotate the textbox and that holding down shift will help us easily rotate to 90 and 180 degrees.

Then we change the area fill color to change the color of the background of the textbox and shows the rounded corners we created earlier

We look at how to delete a text box, and how to add a textbox.

We open the text toolbar and look at how to add a “fit text to frame” textbox and a “Callout” textbox.

We save the presentation as odb03-AsimpleDoc-Pt1