Impress

Impress is OOo's presentation application. Impress is like Microsoft's PowerPoint or Apple's Keynote. More than just a word processor that lets you show some slides, Impress lets you enrich your presentations with multimedia such as: images, charts, video, sound, and formulas. You can go even further with special effects, animation, and some amazing drawing tools. So go out and persuade someone for your cause!

Impress Interface:

Features

Impress has some really great features:

• Macromedia Flash (SWF) Exporting - Impress lets you export as a .swf or Macromedia Flash document, what is so great about this is it lets you create almost in a sense a PDF of your slide show, but instead you can actually click through it. Unfortunately you have to give up some flair for the awesome portability. Anyone with a flash player can watch it.
• Drawing & Diagramming Tools - The drawing tools of Impress are amazing because, they not only are simple to use, but very indepth for those that need it to be. Lines, arrows, boxes, circles, hearts, stars, 3D objects, and a whole ton more. Impress's drawing tools should be perfect for anything you need drawn.
  
• Five Easily Accessed Views - At the top of every slide (and M on this bottom image) there lie 5 simple viewing types. These enable you to get the most space out of your monitor, by keeping non-essential things, such as notes, on different slides. However, going back to the example, when it comes time to write notes, it is easily accessed and provides a great environment for it.

Quick Rundown

• A. - File, this contains commonly used objects such as Open, Save, Export, Print and more.
• B. - Edit, contains common actions such as Copy, Paste, Cut, Undo, Redo, and more.
• C. - View, handles every way of viewing your material, from the 6 viewing types to toolbars to zoom.
  
• D. - Insert, insert slides, images, video, sound, charts, formulas, and more through this menu.
  
• E. - Format, format the page, slides, bulleting and more.
  
• F. - Tools, contains tools such as a spell checker, the gallery, and an eyedropper.
  
• G. - Slide Show, start, animate, make transitions, change timings, and everything for making your slide show is in this menu.
  
• H. - Window, this is an extremely simple menu that contains the windows of OOo you have open, for all sub-applications of OOo, contained in a list.
• I. - Help, containing useful information on how to use Impress, what icons on the screen do, and OpenOffice.org itself.
  
• J. - Drawing & Diagramming Tools, powerful drawing tools let your presentations come to life, a lot is down there and even more can be added. 2D drawing & diagramming tools, 3D tools, Fontwork, interaction, 3D effects, and more.
  
• K. - Tasks, the tasks panel does a lot of different things, it can setup Master Pages, the layout, give you nice looking tables, create animations for your slides, and finally give your slides transitions.
  
• L. - Slides, the slides panel is a simple one but important, it lets you see your slides and move from one to the next.
  
• M. - Views, the view tabs are great because the utilize your entire desktop space and alter your panels so that you can work with more space. Containing the normal, outline, notes, handouts, and slide sorter views.
  
• N. - Zoom, the zoom tool is a small one, use the zoom slider to zoom in and out of your slide, the part on the right shows your current zoom percentage.