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Advanced Presentations – Insert Slide Masters
Insert a new slide master, new title master. In Impress, a slide master is a slide that is used as the starting point for other slides. It controls the basic formatting of all slides which are based on it. A slide show can have more than one slide master. A slide master has a defined…
Read MoreAdvanced Presentations – Design, Content and Layout
Understand timing considerations, tailor content to time available and allow appropriate time interval for each slide. While planning a presentation, it is very important to keep a tab on the time available to present the entire presentation. For example, if the time available is going to be quite a lot, you can have a bigger…
Read MoreAdvanced Presentations – Audience and Environment
Understand how audience demography (age, educational level, occupation, cultural background) and knowledge of subject impacts on planning of a presentation. Whenever we are planning a presentation, it is very important to take into account the different aspects about our target audience. The age, educational level, occupation, cultural background and the knowledge of subject should all…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing Quiz
This quiz is designed to test your knowledge of the contents of the Advanced Spreadsheets Course, part of the Office Software Suite series. These quizzes are designed to improve your Spreadsheet skills. There are twenty questions. The pass mark is 70 out of a potential 100 points, 5 for each question. Once you are satisfied…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing – Run a Macro
To run a macro, click on ‘Tools’ from the main menu bar. From the resulting drop-down menu, click on ‘Macros’, and from the sub-menu which gets displayed, click on ‘Run Macro’. This will open the ‘Macro Selector’ dialog box. In this dialog box, in the ‘Library’ field, we have the list of all the libraries.…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing – Record a Simple Macro
Record a simple macro like: change page setup, insert a table with a repeating heading row, insert fields in document header, footer. A macro is a saved sequence of commands or keystrokes that are stored for later use. The LibreOffice macro language is very flexible, allowing automation of both simple and complex tasks. Macros are…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing – Automatic Text Entry
Create, modify, insert, and delete automatic text entries. Automatic text entry means that a particular word will get automatically inserted into the document when only a pre-defined shortcut for that word is typed. This means that we can define shortcuts for some lengthy and often used words and then can write those words into the…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing – Automatic Text Correction
Create, modify, and delete automatic text correction entries. Automatic text correction means that a particular word will get automatically replaced with another word. This is very useful when we want to avoid using a particular word or when we commonly misspell a word regularly. In such cases we can replace the unwanted word with the…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing – Automatic Text Formatting
Apply automatic text formatting options. Automatic text formatting means that the text keeps on getting formatted automatically while we are typing the text into a Writer document. This means that when we type any text in a Writer document, then this text gets formatted automatically according to a pre-defined set of rules. To apply automatic…
Read MoreAdvanced Word Processing – Embedding
Embed data into a document as an object. One of the most amazing features of Writer is that it enables us to embed data into a document as an object. This means that we can insert any form of data, say a spreadsheet or a chart or a drawing or any other type, into a…
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