IN THIS CHAPTER:
Have you wanted to wow your audiences with professional
presentations ? You can with Impress. This chapter introduces you to Impress. You'll soon be designing and creating effective presentations. By using the predefined presentation tools of Impress, you generate good-looking presentations without needing to worry about design, format, and color specifics. After Impress generates a sample presentation, you need only follow a few simple procedures if you want to modify and tweak the presentation into your own unique version.
Presentation A set of screens, called
pages or
slides , that you present to people in a room or over the Internet.
The primary purpose of Impress is to help you design, create, and edit presentations and printed handouts. Because Impress provides a wide variety of predefined templates, you don't have to be a graphics design specialist to create good-looking presentations.
Remember, the term
presentation refers to an entire Impress collection of slides (or pages), whereas the term
slide or
page refers to an individual screen within that presentation.
Slide is more common than
page due to Microsoft Office PowerPoint's use of the slide terminology.
Impress slides can hold many kinds of information. Here are a few of the things you can add to an Impress presentation:
Data you insert into Impress, including text, charts, graphs, and graphics
Writer documents
Live data from the Internet, including complete web pages
Calc worksheets
Multimedia content such as video and sound files
Graphics from graphics programs such as Draw