Chapter 8. OOo Impress: Smooth, Sophisticated Slide Shows

By Rob Reilly

Chapter 3, “OOo Impress: Slide Shows That Will Impress Almost Anyone,” covered the basics of using OpenOffice.org Impress. Now we’ll take it a step further and explore more advanced features such as slide transitions, object animations, and using different view modes. We’ll also look at interesting ways to customize text and graphic objects. We’ll wrap up the chapter with a few productivity tips to help you streamline your show production.

Getting from Slide to Slide with Transitions

To move from slide to slide in Impress, click to advance to the next slide and right-click to go backwards. If you don’t want to use the mouse, you can use the Page Up/Page Down keys.

But to add a ...

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