Apache OpenOffice is a powerful and free office suite, that is an excellent alternative for comparable office suites such as Microsoft Office. Apache OpenOffice contains Writer, a word processor, Calc, a spreadsheet program, Base, Draw and Impress. Impress is a beautiful presentation, to compare with PowerPoint from Microsoft Office. The open source viewer supports all common file formats, and Office file formats and makes it easy to create impressive presentations.
Apache OpenOffice Impress is free to use and, as part of OpenOffice, available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
PowerPoint from Microsoft is one of the most widely used presentation programs, but has to Apache OpenOffice Impress is a formidable competitor. The program is available in English.
To Impress, you must first complete OpenOffice office suite download and install. Then you click the program, and there are already several possibilities. So, you start with a blank presentation, you don to wish to fill, you choose a template, or open an existing presentation. The first two options give you direct all of your preferences, such as the design of the slides, how the screen will look like, make a choice between the different effects and choose the type of presentation: standard or automatic. Then gives you the time how long a slide should stay put and how long the pause between slides should take.
Then it is possible to use multiple slides to go add, what you are doing under the tab 'Insert' and then 'Slide, and each slide to edit. You simply the title and the text. That happens in the built-in word processor, where multiple things to adapt, such as the font size and the font. It also sets up a background for a slide, and add images, video, audio, tables, charts and links. Moreover, many symbols, shapes and lines to add and there is an option to put in a slide to draw it. In addition, you add effects and animations. All of the elements with your mouse to a desired place to drag. On the right side of the screen you will see another 28 pages, to a simple slide show.
Advantage is that Impress multiple screens support, making your presentation on multiple screens. As you can view, for example, the next slide, while your audience the current slide view. You open simple existing presentations from your hard drive and importing and editing of PowerPoint files is no problem. If your presentation is ready, it is immediately to test and review it.
Your presentation is to save it as a PowerPoint or OpenDocument format or as a PDF or SWF file and a SWF file is used for Flash presentations. In addition to the standard templates, you can download simple additional templates via the website.
Apache OpenOffice Impress has the following characteristics:
Apache OpenOffice Impress screenshots
You can free download Apache OpenOffice Impress 32, 64 bit and safe install the latest trial or new full version for Windows 10 from the official site.