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83. Open an Existing Presentation

82 Set Impress Options

81 Create a New Presentation

84 Run a Presentation

When you open a document in most programs, such as Writer or Calc, you usually start the program and then select

File, Open from the menu. Opening a presentation from within Impress usually differs somewhat due to the importance of the Presentation Wizard and its appearance every time you start Impress.82 Set Impress Options ), Impress starts without the Wizard. Whenever you're inside Impress and want to open an existing presentation, you do use the

File, Open menu command to open an existing presentation.

The

Presentation Wizard dialog box gives you the option to open an existing presentation instead of creating a new presentation. If you want to open an existing presentation, Impress's the

Presentation Wizard dialog box helps by displaying a list of presentation files from which you can choose.

NOTE

Microsoft PowerPoint uses the .ppt file extension.

83. Open an Existing Presentation

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1.

Request a Presentation

Select

Presentation from the

OpenOffice.org Windows menu. Impress opens the

Presentation Wizard dialog box from which you can start a new presentation or, in this case, select an existing presentation. Click the option labeled

Open existing presentation to see a list of Impress presentations in your default folder.

You can also open Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in Impress, although these files are not listed in the Presentation Wizard. To view any Microsoft PowerPoint files in your default folder, or to browse to other folders for additional Impress files, click

Open to display the

Open dialog box, where you can browse to any folder location and select a file. Impress also shows a graphic preview of the first slide in any Impress presentation in the

Presentation Wizard 's preview area when you click to select the presentation.

Although you would think Impress would give you an

Open button, instead you must click the

Create button to open your selected presentation.

2.

Edit or Run the Newly Opened Presentation

Once Impress loads the presentation, you are free to run or edit it.

3.

Open Another Presentation

Once inside Impress, if you want to open a second presentation, select

File, Open from the menu. Impress displays the

Open dialog box from which you can select a presentation to open.

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If you want to close your existing presentation before opening another one, select

File, Close to do so. If you've made changes since you last saved the presentation, Impress gives you the opportunity to save the presentation before closing it.

4.

Select a Presentation

From the

Open dialog box, select the presentation you wish to open and click the

Open button. Impress opens the presentation, and you can edit or run the presentation.