Starting Open Office Impress

Impress is a component of OpenOffice.org that is used to create professional-quality presentations. Impress can publish the slides created, on-screen, as handouts or as HTML documents. Impress components can be used to work on slides, organize presentation contents with outlines and generate speaker notes and audience handouts.

Impress allows creating the contents of the presentation by typing in text and inserting pictures, sounds and animation. It also provides galleries of images and sounds. Impress makes the creation of any presentation simple by providing built-in professional design elements called AutoLayouts and presentation templates. It is also possible to create different versions of a presentation for different audiences and build the contents in either a text-based outline view or a design-based slide view. Impress offers a way to preview the show, add special effects to the slides as displayed on-screen and rehearse the timings of each slide.

Steps to Start Open Office

The following are the steps to activate Impress:
Select Start -> All Programs->OpenOffice.org->OpenOffice.org Impress as shown in Diagram 1.

Diagram 1

Presentation Wizard dialog box appears as shown in Diagram 2.

You can directly create the Presentation slides without going through all the steps of wizard by clicking on the Create button.

From this small window, you can open the existing impress (presentation) in your system by selecting an option from the Type Category.

Select Empty Presentation from the options available in the Type Category and click on Next. As shown in diagram 2.

Diagram 2

Select a slide design from Select a slide design. There are various inbuilt design layouts for slides which you can use in your presentation. According to the selection made, you can view the output in the Preview window on the right hand side. Click on Next as shown in Diagram 3.

Diagram 3

In this small window, you can set the transition effect and speed of transition on all the slides by using the inbuilt Effect and Speed from the options in drop down box.

Select No Effect in the Effect list box and select the Default from the Select the Presentation type. Then click on Create as shown in Diagram 4.

Diagram 4

The Impress window opens as shown in Diagram 5.

Diagram 5

If, while installing, you checked the check box for creating a desktop icon for open office, then directly startup Open Office by clicking on its icon on the desktop as shown in Diagram 6.


Diagram 6

A welcome screen of OpenOffice.org opens as shown in Diagram 7.

Diagram 7

To open, Open Office Impress, you can directly click on the Presentation icon or click the File menu item and select New -> Presentation from its options as shown in Diagram 8.

Diagram 8

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