How to automatically start a slideshow
Running Impress, how do I start a slideshow automatically?
do you mean:after opening impress and loading the presentation, how to start show from first to last slide? In that case in the menubar: slide > transition > a sidepanel is opened, at the bottom you find advance slide > select automatically > adjust time > apply to all slides F5 should now start the auto presentation. Manually adjust times for one slide to vary presentation time for that slide only
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Showing a Slide Show
Different ways exist to start a slide show. Once a slide show is running, you can take control pressing keys or clicking the mouse buttons.
By default, a slide show always starts with the first slide. You advance manually through slides up to the last slide. You can change these settings.
Running a Slide Show
Choose Slide Show - Slide Show to run the show.
Click to advance to the next effect or to the next slide.
Press Esc to abort the slide show before its end.
Many more keys are available to control a slide show . You can also right-click to open a context menu with useful commands.
Showing an automatic slide show (kiosk mode)
For an automatic change to the next slide, you must assign a slide transition to each slide.
Open the Slide Transition sidebar deck.
In the Advance Slide area, click After and enter a time duration.
Click Apply Transition to All Slides .
You can assign a different time for every slide to advance to the next slide. The rehearse timings feature can assist you to get the timing right.
To advance to the first slide, after all slides have been shown, you must set the slide show to repeat automatically.
Choose Slide Show - Slide Show Settings .
In the Presentation Mode area, choose Loop and repeat after and set the duration of the pause between shows.
Running a slide show from a file
You can start LibreOffice from a command prompt, followed by the parameter -show and an Impress filename. For example, to start the file filename.odp from the command prompt, enter the following command:
soffice -show filename.odp
This assumes that soffice is in the program path of your system, and that filename.odp is located in the current directory.
Related Topics
Creating a Custom Slide Show
Rehearse Timings of Slide Changes
Printing Presentations
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How do I automatically start an ODP presentation when I open the file?
LibreOffice is able to launch a .PPS file automatically. To do the same with a .ODP file, you must use the ImpressRunner extension.
- download the extension and install it, then restart LO ;
- the button with the green arrow activates the autostart function;
- the button with the red square deactivates the function ;
Insert manually, or via the extension's toolbar, the keyword autostart in any of the personal properties (not necessarily the first): File ▸ Properties ▸ Custom Properties tab.
- ImpressRunner detects the presence of the keyword in the user properties in order to activate automatic launching or not.
- Once the file is written and closed, the slide will run automatically from the next time the slideshow is opened.
- FAQ/Impress