4.7 Creating Presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress

The Impress presentation software helps you create effective multimedia presentations. You can create slides that contain many different elements, including text, bulleted and numbered lists, tables, charts, clip art, and graphic objects. Also integrated with Impress is a spell checker, a thesaurus, preset text styles, and attractive background styles. You can edit PowerPoint* presentations in Impress as well as save your work in PowerPoint format or create Flash (.swf) versions of your presentations.

Figure 51 OpenOffice.org Impress

If Writer (or any other OpenOffice.org application) is already running, start Impress by clicking FileNewPresentation—or click ProgramsOfficePresentation on the main desktop menu.