12 LibreOffice Impress, Base, Draw, and Math #

Start Impress with an existing presentation or create a new one as described in Section 12.1.1, “Creating a presentation”.

Click View › Master Slide.

This opens the current master slide in Master View. The Master View toolbar appears.

Right-click the left-hand panel, then click New Master.

Edit the master slide until it has the final look.

Master view allows editing outline styles by directly formatting the sample text on the slide.

To finish editing master slides, in the Master View toolbar, click Close Master View. Alternatively, choose View › Normal.

Open your presentation.

Tip: Applying master slides

To apply a master slide to multiple slides but not all slides: Select the slides that you want a slide master applied to.

To select multiple slides, pressCtrl in the Slides pane while clicking the slides you want to use.

In the Tasks pane, open the Master Pages pane and click the master page you want to apply. The master slide is applied to the corresponding page or pages.

If you do not see the Task Pane, click View › Task Pane.

Start LibreOffice Base.

The LibreOffice Database Wizard starts.

You can choose between creating a new database in HSQLDB Embedded format, use an existing database file, or connecting to an existing database.

Proceed with Next.

In case you have created a new database, click Yes, register the database for me to make your database information available to other LibreOffice modules and select the check boxes to Open the database for editing and Create tables using the table wizard. Then click Finish. Browse to the directory where you want to save the database, specify a name for the database, then click Save.

For this example, click Personal.

The list Sample tables changes to show the predefined tables for personal use where the address table template is. The table templates listed under Business contain predefined business tables.

In the Sample tables list, click Addresses.

The available fields for the predefined address book appear in the Available fields menu.

In the Available fields menu, click the fields you want to use in your address book.

Select one item at a time by clicking. Alternatively, to select multiple items, hold Shift and click each of the items separately.

Click the icons single right arrow and single left arrow to move selected items to or off the Selected fields list.

To move all available fields to the Selected fields menu, click the icon double right arrow.

Use the icons up arrow and down arrow to adjust the order of the selected entries.

The fields appear in the table and forms in the order in which they are listed.

Click Next to proceed.

Make sure each of the fields is defined correctly.

You can change the field name, type, maximum characters and whether it is a required field. For this example, leave the settings as they are, then click Next.

Make sure that Create a primary key and Automatically add a primary key are activated. Additionally activate Auto value.

Proceed with Next.

Give the table a name, and activate Create a form based on this table.

Proceed with Finish.

In the Form Wizard, click the double right-arrow icon to move all available fields to the Fields in the form list, then click Next.

To add a subform, activate Add Subform, then click Next.

For this example, accept the default selections.

Select how you want to arrange your form, then click Next.

Select The form is to display all data and leave all of the check boxes deactivated, then click Next.

Apply a style and field border, then click Next.

For this example, accept the default selections.

Name the form, activate Modify the form, then click Finish.

Arrange the fields on the form by dragging them to their new locations.

For example, move the field First Name, so it appears to the right of the field Last Name.

When you have finished modifying the form, save it and close it.