Impress(02) – The Impress Window

We get familiar with Libreoffice Impress by learning what is in the LibreOffice Impress window. The title bar is the name of the the top of the LibreOffice Impress window. Just below the title bar is the Menu Bar – The menu bar has drop-downs that we will be using throughout this video tutorial series. Below the Menu bar are toolbars. The toolbars can be rearranged, by grabbing the handle and placed out in the open (floating) or docked to one of the sides, top or bottom. Right clicking on a toolbar fill-handle will bring up a context menu. We can close the toolbar from the context menu and open it again from the View – Toolbars, and selecting the toolbar we want to turn on (or turn off) The Slide Pane is on the left of the screen, we look at resizing it, showing and hiding it, and turning it on or off. The workspace is the large box in the middle of the screen we are only using the Normal tab at this time. The Sidebar is on the right and can be shown or hidden like the Slide Pane. The Sidebar can be turned off and on from the View menu and can also be moved around to the screen like a toolbar and docked to the left or right side of the Impress window. The status bar is at the bottom of the screen with information about what we are doing at the moment in the lower left, then some positioning information in the middle, what slide we are on, and the lower right corner has a zoom control.