Starting 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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Starting Impress

You can start Impress in several ways:

• If no component of AOO is open, from the Start Center, click on the Presentation icon.
• From the system menu or the Quickstarter. Details vary with your operating system; see Chapter 1 in the Getting Started guide for more information.

• From any open component of AOO: click the triangle to the right of the New icon on the main toolbar and select Presentation from the drop-down menu, or choose File → New → Presentation from the menu bar.

Figure 1: Opening the presentation wizard

When you start Impress for the first time, the Presentation Wizard is shown. For detailed instructions about how to use the wizard, see “Creating a New Presentation”. If you prefer not to use the wizard in the future, you can select Do not show this wizard again.

Click  Create  to open the main Impress window.