Start Impress.

To create a new empty presentation, select File › New › Presentation.

Click View › Master › Slide Master.

This opens the current slide master in Master View. The Master View toolbar appears.

Right-click the left-hand panel, then click New Master.

Edit the slide master until it has the desired look.

A special feature of Master View is that you can edit outline styles by directly formatting the sample text on the slide.

To finish editing slide masters, in the Master View toolbar, click Close Master View. Alternatively, choose View › Normal.

Open your presentation.

(Optional) If you want to apply the slide master to multiple slides, but not to all slides. Select the slides that you want to use that slide master applied to.

To select multiple slides, pressCtrl in the Slides Pane while clicking the slides you want to use.

In the Tasks Pane, open the Master Pages and click the master page you want to apply. The slide master is applied to the corresponding page(s).

If you do not see the Task Pane, click View › Task Pane.

Start LibreOffice Base.

Select Create a new database.

You can choose between creating an HSQLDB or Firebird database.

Proceed with Next.

Click Yes, register the database for me to make your database information available to other LibreOffice modules and select the check boxes to Open the database for editing and Create tables using the table wizard. Then click Finish.

Browse to the directory where you want to save the database, specify a name for the database, then click OK.

In the Table Wizard, click Personal.

The Sample tables list changes to show the predefined tables for personal use. If you had clicked Business, the list would contain predefined business tables.

In the Sample tables list, click Addresses.

The available fields for the predefined address book appear in the Available fields menu.

In the Available fields menu, click the fields you want to use in your address book.

You can select one item at a time, or you can shift-click multiple items to select them.

Click the single arrow icon to move the selected items to the Selected fields menu.

To move all available fields to the Selected fields menu, click the double right-arrow.

Use the ↑ and ↓ keys to adjust the order of the selected fields, then click Next.

The fields appear in the table and forms in the order in which they are listed.

Make sure each of the fields is defined correctly.

You can change the field name, type, maximum characters and whether it is a required field. For this example, leave the settings as they are, then click Next.

Click Create a primary key, click Automatically add a primary key, click Auto value, then click Next.

In the Form Wizard, click the double right-arrow icon to move all available fields to the Fields in the form list, then click Next.

Select Add Subform if you want to add a subform, then click Next.

For this example, accept the default selections.

Select how you want to arrange your form, then click Next.

Select The form is to display all data and leave all of the check boxes empty, then click Next.

Apply a style and field border, then click Next.

For this example, accept the default selections.

Name the form, select the Modify the form option, then click Finish.

Close the form that opened when you finished the previous step.

In the main window for your database, right-click the form you want to modify (there should be only one option), then click Edit.

Arrange the fields on the form by dragging them to their new locations.

For example, move the First Name field so it appears to the right of the Last Name field, and then adjust the locations of the other fields to suit your preference.

When you have finished modifying the form, save it and close it.