3.3. Building Presentations Notes View. You can
3.3. Building Presentations Notes View. You can add notes to your slides in order to help you, your colleagues, or even your audience (if you print them) during the presentation. Handout View. This can be used to print several slides in one page in order to distribute printouts of your presentation to your audience, which is considered almost mandatory for many professional presentations. Start Slide Show. Pressing this button will run your presentation. The same button is located at the end of the toolbar (explained below). Work Area Where you compose the slides which build up your presentation. Slide Tabs Every slide which makes up your presentation possesses a tab which enables you to quickly reach a particular slide. At the left of the tabs are the slide navigation buttons which behave exactly like OpenOffice.org Calc’s sheet navigation buttons (see Section 2, Spreadsheet [113]). Tool Bar It contains the main tools you use to create your slides: the text, shapes, curves, lines and arrow input tools, as well as the object rotate, alignment and arrangement tools, effects tools, and the view-presentation button at the bottom. Some of these buttons contain a little triangle on one corner. Keeping these buttons pressed will open a menu of options for that tool. For example: filled or hollow rectangles, sharp or round edges, etc. 3.3. Building Presentations By default OpenOffice.org Impress uses blank slides. Choose Format . Modify Layout from the menu to change the slide’s template. Select the one you want to use for (most of) your slides, in our example we chose Title, Text (see Figure 11.13, Selecting a Slide Template [124]). Selecting a particular template does not tie all your slides to that template, just makes it the default one.