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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 Chapter 3
(Working with Templates and Styles) and Chapter 7 (Getting Started
with Draw).
Parts of the main Impress window
The main Impress window (Figure 132) has three parts: the
Slides
pane
,
Workspace
, and
Tasks pane
. Additionally, several toolbars can be
displayed or hidden during the creation of a presentation.
Tip
You can remove the
Slides pane
or
Tasks pane
from view by
clicking the
X
in the upper right corner. You can also show or
hide these panes using View > Slide Pane or View > Tasks
Pane.
Slides pane
The
Slides pane
contains thumbnail pictures of the slides in your
presentation, in the order they will be shown (unless you change the
order). Clicking a slide selects it and places it in the
Workspace
. While
it is there, you can apply any changes desired to that particular slide.
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