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Abstract
Add text into a presentation in standard, outline view
Unlike in a word processing document, text cannot be inserted directly into a slide. A text box is a container that holds text. Before inserting text, you need to first insert a text box and the insert text into that.
A text box and its text can be treated as an object like a graphics image and can be dragged to different positions on the slide. It can also be resized. The text can be formatted in the same way as text in a document.
Open the Andromeda slide.
Insert a new slide after the Telescope slide. (Click on Telescope, then ->.
Use a blank outline.
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A blank outline is useful if you want total control over the structure of a slide. You will need to insert all the objects and containers manually. |
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You can add a name to the slide after you have created it. Right click on the tab of the new slide. This will display a context menu.
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Notice the options (Insert, Delete, Modify, Rename).
Click Rename and give the new slide the name Computers.
Click the Text icon on the Main toolbar and insert a text box into the blank slide. Position it at a position of your choice. Type the words There are a large number of the latest computers available for your use into the text box.
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You do not need to worry about the size of the text box. It will expand downwards as you type to accommodate the text you type. You can manually resize it later sideways if you wish. |
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Move the text box by hovering the mouse over one of the perimeter of the text box until a pair of crosswires appear. Hold down the left mouse button and drag the text box to another position.
Insert and resize some computer graphic images on the slide as shown on the following screen:
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If you wish to insert a title on a slide, rather use the Title only layout.
Right click on the Computers tab and select Insert slide or ->.
Select the Title only layout.
Give the new slide the name Videos.
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on the Vertical scroll
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Enter the title Videos on the first line of the new slide.
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Notice that the previous slide did not have a title, hence this is blank on the title line. The title you entered for this slide will automatically be inserted into the title text box.
Press Enter at the end of the word Videos.
This will insert a new slide.
Press Backspace to delete the new slide.
Click on the blank title line of the previous slide and type the word Telescope.
Even though you used a blank slide, Impress will insert a text box in the correct position for a title and enter the text into it.
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Switch back to Drawing mode using ->-> or by clicking
on the Vertical scroll bar.
Go to the Videos slide and insert some text and graphics as shown on the next screen.
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You can edit text boxes at a later stage.
Open the Andromeda presentation.
Click on the Videos tab to jump to the slide.
Click on one of the text boxes. Position the cursor inside the text box. You can now edit the text in the same way you would in a document. Modify the text box as shown on the next screen. You can delete and insert text as you wish.
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Click outside the text box when done.
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Notes refers to text that is stored along with the slide, but is not displayed during a presentation.
Notes have a number of uses:
They can serve as an aid to the speaker.
They can be used to record thoughts in the development of a presentation.
Open the Andromeda presentation.
Go to the Videos slide.
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Add some notes as shown in the following screen.
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Text can be formatted in exactly the same way as in a word processing document. Font style, size, enhancements (bold, underline, italic) and colour can be changed.
When the Andromeda presentation was created, the text used in the Videos slide was Times Roman 24 pt. Depending on your installation, the default font may have been different. In this section you will change the font style and size.
Go to the Videos slide.
Click on the first text box.
Highlight all the text.
Change the font style and size using the Object bar as shown on the next screen. Use a different font style and size of your choice.
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Click on the second text box and highlight only the words all levels.
This time change the font style and size using -> and selecting the Font tab.
Click OK.
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The same method used in the previous section to change the font can be used to apply enhancements such as bold, underlining and italic to fonts.
Select the text.
Click the appropriate icon on the Object
bar, 
or use Ctrl+B,
Ctrl+I or Ctrl+U.
Use this method to make the words all levels in the Videos slide bold.
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If you click on a word without actually highlighting any letters and then click on a icon on the Object bar, the enhancement will automatically be applied to the current word. |
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You may change the case of selected text to upper or lower case.
Go to the Entrance fees slide.
Select the text in the title.
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Go to the Entrance fees slide and select all the text in title.
Click on the font colour icon on the Object bar.
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Click on a colour, for example, red.
Click anywhere on the slide.
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Go to the Computers slide and highlight the words large number.
-> and select the Font effects tab.
Select a colour and press OK.
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The method of the previous section can be used to apply a shadow to text.
Highlight the title of the Computers slide.
-> and select the Font effects tab.
Tick the Shadow check box.
Click OK.
You may align text within a text box in the same way that it can be aligned in tables and pages of a document page. Click anywhere in the text and click the appropriate icon on the Object bar.
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Go to the Videos slide.
Click inside the first text box.
Click the centring icon on the Object bar.
When you insert a bulleted list, Impress inserts a certain amount of space after each item. This is usually 0.50 cm. You may change the amount of space insert both before and after items.
Go to the Features slide. This contains a bulleted list.
Highlight the bulleted list.
-> and click the Indents & Spacing tab.
Use the Above paragraph and Below paragraph spin windows to set the amount of space inserted before and after each item as shown on the next screen.
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Notice that you could also have set the line spacing of the bullets at this time. If you were to use line spacing, then this would also be applied between multiple lines of the same bullet item. |
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There are a number of bullet styles available. You may change the style of the bullets.
Select all the bulleted items in the Features slide.
-> and click the Bullets tab.
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Select a style of bullet and Click OK.
When we execute a command on some text, for example delete the text, we are able to reverse what we have done. This is known as the undo function. It is also possible after having undone the change, get it back. This is called the redo function.
Impress actually keeps a history of recent changes you have made.
Pressing Ctrl-Z undoes the last change you made. Pressing it a second time, undoes the one before that, and so on.
An alternative method is to use->. When you use this method, the menu will indicate what type of operation you will be undoing.
Yet another way of carrying out undo is to press the undo icon on the
function bar, 
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As mentioned above, redo undoes the action of the last undo.
To use this function use ->. As in the case of undo, the menu will indicate the action that you will be redoing.
You can also execute the redo function by
pressing the redo icon on the function bar, 
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Suppose in the previous section you were unhappy with the change.
-> or Ctrl-Z will change the bullets back to their original form.
-> or Ctrl+Y will restore the change.
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