by Paolo | 1 December 2015 | Blog, impress, libreoffice
Keyboard shortcuts in LibreOffice Impress are a great tip to increase your productivity while you are at work with this fantastic suite. In the past I covered the keys for presenting visual aids effectively. Recently I came across some others quite handy when...
by Paolo | 15 November 2012 | Blog, impress, libreoffice
Using pictures in slides is definitely a great thing because visual communication is much more effective. It’s faster, clearer and generally triggers more emotions. Adding images in LibreOffice Impress is quite simple, let’s see how to do it and avoid the...
by Paolo | 24 September 2012 | Blog, impress, libreoffice
You may want to design your visual aids to have a 16:9 ratio, also called widescreen. Why? It could be that you have a 16:9 projector, or the presentation will be shown on a widescreen monitor (and most of mobile devices now are 16:9) or it could be that you want it...
by Paolo | 5 September 2012 | Blog, impress, libreoffice
Picking the colours for a presentation’s visual aids it is something that has to be considered and done before sitting down to design them. This is true regardless whether you have a corporate palette (how to create yours?) or not. The first and foremost reason...
by Paolo | 24 July 2012 | Blog, impress, libreoffice
The presentation is to begin and your visual aids (aka slides) are ready: how to use them? You must show them with the right timing. They should come up when needed and not before. When we are not talking about something related they should disappear, whether we moved...
by Paolo | 22 June 2012 | Blog, impress, libreoffice
LibreOffice Impress comes with several ready to use colours. As wide is the choice you still want to consider creating your own personal or corporate colour palette. The first question is if you do have already a corporate palette, a specific set of colour to be used...
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