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Creating Your First Presentation

The easiest way to learn about OpenOffice.org Impress is to create a simple presentation. In the following sections, you create a simple four-slide presentation with one bullet list, one graphic, one pie chart, and one slide that combines all these elements. You then learn how to play back the slide show for an audience.

Because the OpenOffice.org Impress application begins with a blank slide, you are ready to begin working on your first slide immediately after you launch the OpenOffice.org Impress application.

Selecting a Slide Layout and Design

Your first slide begins as a blank white canvas, ready to be filled. Plain white is a little boring, though. Before adding any text or graphics to a slide, you usually ...