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Delete text.

The text can be deleted by simply selecting the unwanted text and pressing the ‘Delete’ button on your keyboard.

Another method is to place the text pointer to the right of the text which needs to be deleted and then press the ‘backspace’ button from the keyboard. This will delete the text backwards. Release the button after deleting as much text as is needed.
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Use the undo, redo command.

The undo command undoes the effect of the recent changes which were made to the document in such a way so that the most recent change is undone first. The redo command performs the most recent change done to the document again.

To use the undo or redo commands, click on ‘Edit’ from the main menu bar. From the resulting drop-down, click on ‘Undo’ or ‘Redo’ as per the requirement to perform undo or redo respectively.

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Enter text into a placeholder in standard, outline view.

To enter text into a slide, simply click once in the text area. This will give a blinking text pointer in the text area. Now use the keys on your keyboard to enter the text values. This is how we can enter text into an Impress presentation.
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Edit text in a presentation.

To edit content by entering or removing characters or words within existing text, select the text which you want to remove and replace. After this type the new text values. The new text will automatically take place of the selected text.

Copy, move text within, between presentations.

To copy text within a presentation, or between open presentations, select the text which needs to be copied and then right click on the selected text and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Copy’. After this, place the text pointer where the text needs to be copied to, this location can be in the same presentation or even some other open presentation, and again right-click and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’. The text will get copied to the new location.

To move text within a presentation, or between open presentations, select the text which needs to be moved and then right click on the selected text and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Cut’. After this, place the text pointer where the text needs to be moved to, this location can be in the same presentation or even some other open presentation, and again right-click and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’. The text will be moved to the new location.

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Enter text into a placeholder in standard, outline view.

To enter text into a slide, simply click once in the text area. This will give a blinking text pointer in the text area. Now use the keys on your keyboard to enter the text values. This is how we can enter text into an Impress presentation.
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Edit text in a presentation.

To edit content by entering or removing characters or words within existing text, select the text which you want to remove and replace. After this type the new text values. The new text will automatically take place of the selected text.

Copy, move text within, between presentations.

To copy text within a presentation, or between open presentations, select the text which needs to be copied and then right click on the selected text and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Copy’. After this, place the text pointer where the text needs to be copied to, this location can be in the same presentation or even some other open presentation, and again right-click and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’. The text will get copied to the new location.

To move text within a presentation, or between open presentations, select the text which needs to be moved and then right click on the selected text and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Cut’. After this, place the text pointer where the text needs to be moved to, this location can be in the same presentation or even some other open presentation, and again right-click and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’. The text will be moved to the new location.

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Recognize good practice in creating slide content: use short concise phrases, bullet points, numbered lists.

When we create a presentation, the content added in the slide should be short and precise. This helps in creating self-explanatory slides. Impress application supports various methods to follow good practice in creating slides like using bullet points or numbered lists.
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The process of creating bullets or numbered lists is dependent on the type of text box used. In the Auto-layout text boxes, by default the outline style is bulleted lists. Whereas for text box created by the ‘T’ Text Tool, we need to follow some steps which will be explained in the upcoming sections.

All the text boxes in the in-built layouts have bulleted list by default as has been explained above. To display the text in bullet list, click on ‘Click to add text’ and start typing. If we need to start new bullet line, just press ‘enter’ from the keyboard. Also, if we need to start a new line without the bullet list, press ‘Shift+Enter’.

In Auto-layout, to switch between bullet and numbered list we can go to ‘Format’ in the main menu bar. Here, select the ‘Bullets and Numbering’ icon. This will open the ‘Bullets and Numbering’ dialog box as has been shown below, where you can switch between numbers and bullets and also the different styles of both respectively.

To create a list in the manually created text box, firstly place the cursor in the text box and click on the ‘Bullets On\Off’ icon in the ‘Text Formatting Toolbar’ as has been shown below. Now, in the text box, type the text. To start the new bullet line or to start a line without bullets follow the same process as explained for Auto-layout.

We can switch between bullet lists and numbered lists in the same way as we did for Auto-layout text box.
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Recognize good practice in creating slide content: use short concise phrases, bullet points, numbered lists.

When we create a presentation, the content added in the slide should be short and precise. This helps in creating self-explanatory slides. Impress application supports various methods to follow good practice in creating slides like using bullet points or numbered lists.
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The process of creating bullets or numbered lists is dependent on the type of text box used. In the Auto-layout text boxes, by default the outline style is bulleted lists. Whereas for text box created by the ‘T’ Text Tool, we need to follow some steps which will be explained in the upcoming sections.

All the text boxes in the in-built layouts have bulleted list by default as has been explained above. To display the text in bullet list, click on ‘Click to add text’ and start typing. If we need to start new bullet line, just press ‘enter’ from the keyboard. Also, if we need to start a new line without the bullet list, press ‘Shift+Enter’.

In Auto-layout, to switch between bullet and numbered list we can go to ‘Format’ in the main menu bar. Here, select the ‘Bullets and Numbering’ icon. This will open the ‘Bullets and Numbering’ dialog box as has been shown below, where you can switch between numbers and bullets and also the different styles of both respectively.

To create a list in the manually created text box, firstly place the cursor in the text box and click on the ‘Bullets On\Off’ icon in the ‘Text Formatting Toolbar’ as has been shown below. Now, in the text box, type the text. To start the new bullet line or to start a line without bullets follow the same process as explained for Auto-layout.

We can switch between bullet lists and numbered lists in the same way as we did for Auto-layout text box.
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We can add text into the slides in Impress using the ‘Text Box’. There are two ways for adding text into the slides: we can either choose a predefined layout for the text boxes for the slides from the ‘Tasks Pane’, these layouts are known as ‘Auto-Layout Text Box’, or we can insert a text box using a text tool symbolized by ‘T’ in the text toolbar.
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To enter text in the Auto Layout text box, ‘Normal View’ should be selected. Then we add text where ‘Click to add text’ is displayed.

To enter text into text box created by using ‘Text Tool’, ‘Normal View’ should be selected. We can create the text box by clicking on the ‘T’ text icon and drag the mouse in the slide to create the text box. Release the mouse button after creating the desired text box. We can reposition the text box in the slide. Now the text can be entered or pasted in this text box.

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We can add text into the slides in Impress using the ‘Text Box’. There are two ways for adding text into the slides: we can either choose a predefined layout for the text boxes for the slides from the ‘Tasks Pane’, these layouts are known as ‘Auto-Layout Text Box’, or we can insert a text box using a text tool symbolized by ‘T’ in the text toolbar.
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To enter text in the Auto Layout text box, ‘Normal View’ should be selected. Then we add text where ‘Click to add text’ is displayed.

To enter text into text box created by using ‘Text Tool’, ‘Normal View’ should be selected. We can create the text box by clicking on the ‘T’ text icon and drag the mouse in the slide to create the text box. Release the mouse button after creating the desired text box. We can reposition the text box in the slide. Now the text can be entered or pasted in this text box.

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The slide which is used as the starting point for all other slides is known as a Master slide. A slide master has defined characteristics including background color, graphics, headers-footers, placement and size of text frames, and formatting of the text. Any new slide we create has all the characteristics of the master slide. If we change any characteristic of the master slide, it will reflect in all other slides as well.
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Insert a graphical object (picture, image, drawn object) into a master slide.

To insert a graphical object into a master slide, we first open the master view. First of all, go to ‘View’ on the main menu bar, and then from the resulting drop-down click on ‘Master’ and then click on ‘Slide Master’ to open the master view.

After master view is opened, navigate to ‘Insert’ on the main menu bar and from the drop down, select ‘Image’.

This will open the ‘Insert Image’ dialog box from where we can browse to the location where the picture to be inserted is located. After selecting the picture, click on ‘Open’. The picture will get inserted into the master slide.

Remove a graphical object from a master slide.

To remove a graphical object from the master slide, simply select the object and press ‘Delete’ button on the keyboard of your machine.
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The slide which is used as the starting point for all other slides is known as a Master slide. A slide master has defined characteristics including background color, graphics, headers-footers, placement and size of text frames, and formatting of the text. Any new slide we create has all the characteristics of the master slide. If we change any characteristic of the master slide, it will reflect in all other slides as well.
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Insert a graphical object (picture, image, drawn object) into a master slide.

To insert a graphical object into a master slide, we first open the master view. First of all, go to ‘View’ on the main menu bar, and then from the resulting drop-down click on ‘Master’ and then click on ‘Slide Master’ to open the master view.

After master view is opened, navigate to ‘Insert’ on the main menu bar and from the drop down, select ‘Image’.

This will open the ‘Insert Image’ dialog box from where we can browse to the location where the picture to be inserted is located. After selecting the picture, click on ‘Open’. The picture will get inserted into the master slide.

Remove a graphical object from a master slide.

To remove a graphical object from the master slide, simply select the object and press ‘Delete’ button on the keyboard of your machine.
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Copy, move slides within the presentation, between open presentations.

To copy a slide within a presentation, select the slide you want to copy from the slides pane, and then drag and drop that slide to the desired location within the presentation. Similarly, to move a slide, right-click on the desired slide from the slides pane and from the resulting menu, select ‘Cut’. Now go to the desired location where the slide needs to be moved to and then right-click there and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’.
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Slides can also be copied between open presentations. To copy the slide, right-click on the slide from the slides pane and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Copy’. Open the new presentation where you want to copy the selected slide. Now right-click in the slides pane in this new presentation, and from the resulting menu, click on ‘Paste’.

To move the slide between open presentations, follow the same steps as above and Paste the slide in the other presentation.

Delete slide(s).

A slide can be deleted by simply right-clicking on the slide from the slides pane and then clicking on ‘Delete Slide’ from the resulting menu.
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