Chapter 6. Getting Started with Impress
- Parts of the main Impress window
- Working with views
- Creating a new presentation
- Formatting a presentation
- Slide masters and styles
- Working with slide masters
- Adding and formatting text
- Creating tables
- Adding graphics, spreadsheets, charts, comments and other objects
- Setting up and running the slide show
This is Chapter 6 of Getting Started with OpenOffice.org 3.x, produced by the OOoAuthors group. A PDF of this chapter is available from this wiki page. The PDFs are up to date for the second edition of the book, but not all of the wiki pages for this chapter have been updated yet.
What is Impress?
Impress is OpenOffice.org’s slide show (presentations) program. You can create slides that contain many 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 includes instructions, screenshots, and hints to guide you through the Impress environment while designing the easier presentations. Although more difficult designs are mentioned throughout this chapter, explanations for creating them are in the Impress Guide. If you have a working knowledge of how to create slide shows, we recommend you use the Impress Guide for your source of information.
To use Impress for more than very simple slide shows requires some knowledge of the elements which the slides contain. Slides containing text use styles to determine the appearance of that text. Slides containing objects are created the same way that drawings are created in Draw. For this reason, we recommend that you also study [[../Templates_and_Styles | Chapter 3 (Using Styles and Templates)]] and [[../Getting_Started_with_Draw | Chapter 7 (Getting Started with Draw)]].
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