Help with OpenOffice's Impress
I've heard Impress is considered weaker than PowerPoint. I do a lot of presentations in my office, where we use Microsoft Word. However, I have OpenOffice at home because I don't want to have to pay for Microsoft Office. I haven't used Impress. Can you offer some advice for getting started?

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Impress is in some ways weaker than PowerPoint. If you're currently using Word for presentations, though, Impress will of course provide you with a lot more features. Impress is fairly straightforward to get started with. I suggest reading the following:

This was first published in April 2007

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