Impress for the beginner

Hi People

Many will not know Impress (the presentation program within OpenOffice.org).  It is the equivalent of the Powerpoint presentation program within Microsoft Office.

Presentations can be made at all levels of social and business interaction, because laptop computers are now available to almost everyone.
Laptops are where most presentations are made from and so a party planner might put on a presentation, school children could watch a presentation (or even put one on), a returning holiday maker, may well put a presentation on for friends and family and of course a salesman may make a presentation to a prospect.

 These are some of the few possibilities, so getting to know what can be done with a presentation package can be very useful for many people.

Let's now take a look at Impress.  To open Impress for a new presentation, simply click on the OpenOffice.org icon and select the presentation icon or select Impress from the OpenOffice menu on All Programs.

In both cases a small wizard window opens and you can choose to use a blank or existing presentation or indeed use a template (leave the Preview box ticked). It is probably wise to use the wizard until you get to know your way around Impress.

Select the blank presentation then click the 'Next' button.

Now you may select the presentation background (it is very limited in the basic installation, but we will look at  getting new backgrounds  at a later time).  Select the Dark Blue with Orange.

Leave the 'Screen' box ticked as we are going to use a computer output presentation (The alternatives can be used for a printed output - Paper, an overhead projector - Overhead sheet or a slideshow projector - Slide).

Click 'Next' and now the options for the type of transition, its speed and a manual or automatic presentation are displayed.

Choose a transition type ( Effect ) and leave the Speed as medium and the Default radio button selected.

You can fill in the boxes on the next screen display if you wish, but they are not compulsory.

Now click the 'Create' button to begin creating your presentation proper.

That 's all until next time

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