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Use OpenOffice.org Impress to create presentations for screen display or printing, such as slide shows or transparencies. If you have used other presentation software, you can move comfortably to Impress, which works very similarly to other presentation software.
Impress can open and save Microsoft Powerpoint presentations, which means you can exchange presentations with Powerpoint users, as long as you save your presentations in Powerpoint format.
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Select the option to use for creating the presentation.
There are two ways to create a presentation:
Create an empty presentation
Opens Impress with a blank slide. Use this option to create a new presentation from scratch, without any preformatted slides.
Create a presentation from a template
Opens Impress with your choice of template. Use this option to create a new presentation with a predesigned OpenOffice.org template or a template you’ve created or installed yourself, such as your company’s presentation template. Impress uses styles and templates the same way other OpenOffice.org modules do. See Section 3.2.4, “Using Templates to Format Documents” for more information about templates.
Master pages give your presentation a consistent look by defining the way each slide looks, what fonts are used, and other graphical elements. Impress uses two types of master pages:
Slide master
Contains elements that appear on all slides. For example, you might want your company logo to appear in the same place on every slide. The slide master also determines the text formatting style for the heading and outline of every slide that uses that master page, as well as any information you want to appear in a header or footer.
Notes master
Determines the formatting and appearance of the notes in your presentation.
Impress comes with a collection of preformatted master pages. Eventually, most users will want to customize their presentations by creating their own slide masters.
Start Impress, then create a new empty presentation.
Click ++.
This opens the current slide master in Master View.
Right-click the left-hand panel, then click .
Edit the slide master until it has the desired look.
Click or + to return to Normal View.
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When you have created all of the slide masters you want to use in your presentations, you can save them in an Impress template. Then, any time you want to create presentations that use those slide masters, open a new presentation with your template. | |
Slide masters can be applied to selected slides or to all slides in the presentation.
Open your presentation, then click ++.
(Optional) If you want to apply the slide master to multiple slides, but not to all slides, select the slides that you want to use that slide master.
To select multiple slides, in the Slides Pane, Control-click on the slides you want to use that slide master.
In the Task Pane, right-click the master page you want to apply.
If you do not see the Task Pane, click +.
Apply the slide master by clicking one of the following:.
Applies the selected slide master to all slides in the presentation.
Applies the selected slide master to the current slide, or to any slides you select before applying the slide master. For example, if you want to apply a different slide master to the first slide in a presentation, select that slide, then change to Master View and apply a slide master to that slide.
