LO 7 Impress indents

Hi

I am making an LO 7 impress presentation, and trying to use indents, So I can do the following

parent item 1
parent item 2
    child item 1
    child item 2
    Parent item 3 (I want this aligned with the other parent bullet points)

However I am struggling to figure out how to then set items back to the left hand side of the slide I am working on. (I have tried to note what I want above)

Not quite sure what to search for when trying to do a search on duckduckgo for example

On a 2nd note

Also which tool bar do I select from view-tool bars to display the text size options.

Looking at this

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/92747/how-can-i-change-the-texts-size-in-libre-office-impress/

I don't have the >> in the toolbar so can't reveal 'hidden' options. So as text size is a hidden option, where as on other modules (writer, calc) it is just there on the tool bar.

The latest Impress guide seems to be for version 4.0!!!
https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/impress/

Thanks for any help

Paul

Hello Paul

Version 7.0 of the Impress Guide will be available shortly. I am just waiting for reviews of the chapters and I can then publish the user guide.

In Impress there are Presentation styles and Drawing styles.

Presentation styles cannot be deleted or renamed and are used when you create slides using one of the Impress layouts. However, you can modify the style to suit your requirements.Impress layouts use AutoLayout text boxes.

Drawing styles are a little more flexible as you can create new ones. Drawing styles are used when you create a text box using the Insert Text Box on the Standard toolbar or the keyboard shortcut F2.
You cannot delete the drawing styles that are part of the Impress installation, but you can modify them.

Not sure what you mean with parent item 1 and so on.
Presentation styles are used for Outline styles and the default format is for bullet points. They go from Outline 1 to Outline 9.
Is this what you mean by parent item 1?

To create another line without creating another bullet (outline) point, use Shift+Enter when dealing with Presentation styles. The indent of the line is the same as the bullet point, but there is no actual bullet point. This is the same as creating a line break instead of a new paragraph.

Working with text, you need the Text Formatting toolbar or the options available in Format on the main menu bar. If the Text Formatting toolbar does not appear when working with text, go to View > Toolbars on the main menu bar and select Text Formatting.

Let me know if this helps you.
Peter Schofield
psauthor@gmail.com

Hi Peter

Fixed the issue with text formatting box

By parent bullet point I mean the first bullet point in a list or the 2nd the parent is the one that is directly before an indented bullet point

sorry I *do not know* the correct terminology for all this. To me they are bullet points with some points indented further if they are related to the one above (hence i was calling the parent bullet point) in a similar way you have a parent - > child processes on Linux.

I will try the ctrl-enter thing later.

Paul

Paul:

Are you using styles when you do this? The Presentation styles include title, subtitle, and Outline. It is the latter that you need to use to properly  format your presentation. I have a file which you could see how this works. (It was made  when OpenOffice 2.0 first came out, but it still has the basics. I can upload it to the NextCloud if you want to download it for whatever use you find for it.

Dan

This is located in the Contributor Resources folder

Dan