If you want to make the template available as a structural guide for other slide shows, click the Presentations folder.If you want to make the template available as a design for slides, click the Presentations Background folder in the left pane.Open any OpenOffice application, and select File > Templates > Organize.Once you’ve downloaded, follow these steps: Still, if you want a template library, you can quickly add one to Impress by downloading from the OOo Extras site. People see the same templates over and over, so, from one perspective, the lack of templates is no great loss.
Neither is very useful, except perhaps as example of how not to. In contrast to PowerPoint’s several dozen templates, Impress offers only two. However, as a former PowerPoint user, you’ll be disappointed by the number of templates that come with Impress. For rushed or first time users, it’s that rarest of apps: An online tutorial that’s actually useful. You can tweak these choices later if you choose, but what gives the AutoPilot the edge is that you don’t have to. By contrast, the Impress AutoPilot not only guides you through these selections, but also the slide transition type and timing, and the title page. In PowerPoint, the Wizard helps you select a slide background, a structure for the slide show, the type of output, and nothing more. It’s the same thing, but the implementation isn’t. In PowerPoint, the tutorial is called a Wizard, while in Impress it’s an AutoPilot. Personally, after reading about the role that this type of tool played in the making of the satirical Gettysburg PowerPoint Address, I have grave doubts about them, but they’re mostly harmless, so long as you exercise some judgment.īoth PowerPoint and Impress start with a tutorial for setting up a slide show. The command is Tools > Autosummarize in Microsoft Word, and File > Send > Autoabstract to Presentation in Writer, but the result is the same. Both allow you to structure slide shows from the heading styles of a text document, starting a new slide for every Heading 1 style. Impress and PowerPoint divide the honors equally when it comes to tools to get you up and running.
In others, a comparison of the two products might help you decide whether you came make a transition. In many areas, the differences are ones of detail rather than function. Working with graphics, charts, and diagrams.Yet, despite the basic similarities, there are some inevitable differences in key areas such as: Now and then you may need to hunt for a feature, but if you assume that it’s around somewhere, you’ll be right more often than not. You may notice a slight change in name, and one or two features may be in different places, but you can count on locating basic functions without major problems. This similarity means that, for most people, learning Impress is quicker than learning, for example, KPresenter. Most of the same tools are available as in PowerPoint, and in the same places. Like the rest of, Impress is designed for an easy transition from Microsoft Office. What if you need to design a slide show in OOo Impress? Coming from PowerPoint, what can you expect?įor starters, expect to feel nearly at home. But word processing is only part of what the average user needs in an office program. By now, anyone who has researched replacing Microsoft Office with knows that Writer is an acceptable, even superior substitute for Word.
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