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Who is to see the presentation? How will it be used? What is the

subject matter? What should be in its outline? How detailed should the

outline be? Will an audio file be played? Is animation desirable? How

should the transition between slides be handled? These are some of the

many questions that should be asked, answered, and written down

before creating the presentation. Sound and animation are more

advanced topics and are explained in the

Impress Guide

Again, it is not always necessary at this point to have specific answers

to every question. Making an outline is extremely important. You may

already know exactly what some of the slides will contain. You may

only have a general idea of what you want on some of the slides. That

is alright. You can make some changes as you go. Change your outline

to match the changes you make in your slides.

The important part is that you have a general idea of what you want

and how to get it. Put that information on paper. That makes it much

easier to create the presentation.

Using the Presentation Wizard

You can start Impress in several ways:

• From the OOo Welcome screen, if no component is open.

• From the system menu or the OOo Quickstarter. Details vary with

your operating system; see Chapter 1 for more information.

• From any open component of OOo. Click the triangle to the right

of the New icon on the main toolbar and select

Presentation

from

the drop-down menu or choose File > New > Presentation from

the menu bar.

When you start Impress, the Presentation Wizard appears (Figure

139).

Tip

If you do not want the wizard to start every time you launch

Impress, select the Do not show this wizard again checkbox.

You can enable it again later if you need under Tools >

Options > OpenOffice.org Impress > General > Wizard,

and select the Start with wizard checkbox.

Leave the Preview checkbox selected, so templates, slide

designs, and slide transitions appear in the preview box as you

choose them.

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