Inserting and formatting shapes and pictures - OpenOffice presentation

Inserting and formatting shapes and pictures

In order to insert an image in OpenOffice Impress, place the cursor in the place where you want the image to be inserted. Then, Click Insert → Select Picture → From File option from the Insert menu. Refer Figure 13.15.

OpenOffice Impress will display the dialog box, where you can select the image from the specific location and select open. The image will be inserted in the specified location. Refer Figure 13.16.

In order to format pictures, right click on the picture and select the option you want to do to that picture. Through the options, you can crop, resize, align, arrange, flip and so on.

Inserting and formatting shapes

In order to insert shapes, make the Drawing tools visible by choosing View → Toolbars→ Drawing option as shown in Figure 13.18. If it is already available, it will be in the bottom of the screen as in Figure 13.19. You can insert 2D as well 3D shapes. You can customise as per your need.