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  Speaker’s Notes: During the presentation, a set of notes is required as a reference to help the demonstrator.
 Unit-5 DIGITAL PRESENTATION  Such notes are known as Speaker’s Notes. It is a small hint about the information on the slides.

                   Outlines: Outline is a miniature or summarized view of the slides in a presentation. In outline, only the title,
                   sub-titles and the main text of all the slides, excluding pictures, tables or charts are displayed.

                   Outlines can be used to organize the sequence of  ow of information of slides in a presentation.
                   Masters: Masters are the features that are common in multiple slides of a presentation- such as title, font
                   size & colour, background colour, etc.

                   Slide Show: It is the electronic presentation of slides arranged in a set of sequence and displayed through
                   a projector. The slides get displayed one after another on the full screen.
                   USES OF PRESENTATION PACKAGE

                 Presentation package can be used for different purposes like:

                 On-Screen Presentation

                 Presentation package  can  be used to create exciting and  effective on-screen presentations that  can  be
                 displayed through LCD projectors or LED TVs. They include movies, sounds, animations, etc.
                 Web Presentation

                 Presentation package can be used for displaying presentation on web. Thus, presentation can be made
                 accessible to people staying in remote places of the world.

                 35 mm Slides

                 The electronic slides or pages can be used to make 35mm slides for different purposes.
                 Overhead Transparencies

                 The slides made in a graphical presentation package can be printed on transparent sheets facilitating overhead
                 presentations.

                 Handouts and References
                 The outline of slides can be printed on a paper that can be used for reference purpose and the matter of the
                 slides can also be used as notes.

                 In this chapter, we will discuss about the presentation package in reference to ‘Impress’.
                 Impress is used to make effective presentations with the help of movies, sounds, graphs, etc. It is a part of
                 OpenOffice Suite and can be downloaded from the website  www.openoffice.org .

                   FEATURES OF IMPRESS

                 Following are the features that Impress offers:
                   In Impress, online screen presentations, web presentations, overhead  transparencies, 35 mm slides,
                   printouts, notes, handouts and outlines can be easily made.

                   In Impress, there are added facilities like design templates, pictures, etc., that help the user to create the
                   slides easily and effectively along with pre-defined ideas.
                   The slides in Impress can contain audio, video, graphs, tables, graphics, photographs, etc. in addition to
                   text.




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