

Now, you won’t have a large number of these because slides can only hold so much. Add another heading and some more body, that is two more right there. So if you want a heading, then some body, that is two text boxes right there. You see, one of the interesting rules is that you can only have one style per text box. You can add as many text boxes as you need to add, and when you go down this path you may need to use a few. That can give you an interesting graphical effect for your text. For instance, you can use the Fit Text To Frame icon to draw a box where the text will resize to fit the box, instead of the box resizing to fit the text, which is the normal approach. This gives you a few more options than the simple Text tool on the Drawing toolbar, so it is worth knowing about. This may appear as a floating toolbar, but you can drag it to the side or drag it to another toolbar as an addition. The other way is to add the Text toolbar by going to View–>Toolbars, and place a check mark in the Text box. You don’t need to worry about the size of the box, it will expand to fit the text you place in it. Just look for an icon of a capital T and click on it, then draw a box on the slide. First, you do it from the Drawing toolbar, which is usually open and docked at the bottom of the screen. Again, they may be modified if you like, or you can create additional styles as needed.

These can be a little bit confusing because they are shared among different LibreOffice modules, so some of the things you see aren’t really meant for Impress. Text Boxes are considered graphical objects, actually, so they are controlled by the Drawing Object Styles.
