
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. Text, Text Body, and Text Justified – These styles correspond to the Text styles in Writer and serve a similar purpose.Heading, Heading 1, Heading 2 – This gives you three levels of headings in descending size as written, though you can also modify them, or even create additional styles if you wish.But this would let you do what is standard practice and have paragraphs where the first line is indented. In Writer I have to create my Paragraph style from scratch whenever I do a new setup of the program. First Line Indent – I don’t know why they have this for Impress, but not for Writer.You have several styles to choose from here: The idea of text boxes is to make it easier to present content that does not lend itself to bullet points, and still have uniformity through the use of the Drawing Object Styles. The Title would be controlled by the Title Presentation Style. If you you wanted to have a slide title but use Text boxes, you should select the Title Only slide layout.

They are actually meant for putting titles on drawings, such as engineering drawings. For example, there are three Title styles, but none of them are meant for putting titles on slides.

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.
