Using Impress by OpenOffice.org

Pt. 5 of 10 | 2:50 |

OpenOffice.org 101 - Beginning Studies

Friday May 28, 2010

You might be familiar with

presentation programs

such as Microsoft PowerPoint. Well with

OpenOffice.org

being the full-featured

office suite

that it is, it's got a presentation program of its own called Impress. As with all of the other programs included in this suite, Impress is free and comes loaded with all of the features that you'd find in a paid-for product. In this episode we'll show you how to

create presentations using Impress

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Show Notes

- Impress is the presentation module of OpenOffice.org.

- It can open Microsoft Powerpoint projects.

- You can start from scratch, use a template or open an existing presentation.

- Impress has a full range of features so that you can edit each slide and control how it appears.

- A variety of first-class transitions are available.

- You can view a slideshow and see how your presentation looks.

- Edit your presentation in a variety of ways.

- Change the look of your presentation by switching templates.

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