What is Impress?

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Impress Guide

Chapter 1: Introducing Impress

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• What is Impress?
• Starting Impress
• The Main Impress Window
  • Slides Pane
  • Sidebar
  • Workspace
  • Toolbars
  • Status Bar
  • Navigator
• Workspace Views
  • Normal View
  • Outline View
  • Notes View
  • Handout View
  • Slide Sorter View
    • Customizing Slide Sorter View
    • Moving a Slide Using Slide Sorter
    • Selecting and Moving Groups of Slides
    • Working in Slide Sorter View
    • Renaming Slides
• Creating a New Presentation
• Formatting a Presentation
  • Inserting Slides
  • Selecting a Layout
  • Modifying the Slide Elements
    • Inserting Text
    • Inserting a Table
    • Inserting a Picture
    • Inserting a Chart
    • Inserting a Movie
  • Modifying the Appearance of Slides
  • Modifying the Slide Show
    • Custom Animations
    • Slide Transitions
• Running the Slide Show

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What is Impress?

Impress is Apache OpenOffice’s slide show or presentation program. You can create slides that contain different elements, including text, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, charts, clip art, and a wide range of graphic objects. Impress also includes a spelling checker, a thesaurus, prepackaged text styles, and attractive background styles.

This chapter introduces the Impress user interface and describes how to create a simple slide show using the Presentation Wizard.

The rest of this guide illustrates many other features available in Impress that can be used to create more sophisticated slide shows.

Drawings are created in the same way with Impress as they are with Draw. Refer to the Draw Guide for details on how to use drawing facilities.