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Advantages of Presentation Software
Presentation software is widely used to create digital presentations. It has numerous benefits as follows:
• A presentation can be made interesting by including images, videos, animation, and music.
• It is easy to make changes to digital presentations.
• By projecting on a screen, a digital presentation can be shown to a much larger audience.
• The presentation can also be printed and distributed to the audience.
Getting Started with Impress
On opening OpenOffice Impress software, you get the following screen:
By default, the first slide is the Title Slide. The title of the presentation can be added in the first box. The second box can
be used to give the subtitle (if any) or description about the presentation.
Creating a New Presentation
To create a new presentation, follow the given steps:
Click on File à New.
OR
Click on the New icon present on the Standard toolbar. A Presentation Wizard opens. Presentation Wizard is an interactive
way of creating a presentation through a step-by-step dialog box by offering various elements and editing options.
There are three options available in Presentation Wizard:
• Empty presentation
• Open existing presentation
• From template
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