How to Animate Slides in OpenOffice Impress

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OpenOffice Impress is a free presentation program that allows the users to create slide shows. Animating slides in an Impress presentation adds movement and interest to the slides. OpenOffice is a user-friendly program that makes creating memorable presentations easy to use at home or at work.

Instructions

Difficulty: Easy

Step1
Open your Impress presentation. Click on "Impress" in your Start menu. A small window pops up. Choose the "Open Exciting Presentation" open and then choose your presentation from the list of files.
Step2
Click on the "Custom Animation" tab in the View section on the right side of the window.
Step3
Select the slide you want to animate from the display in the left side of the page.
Step4
Click the "Add" button.
Step5
Choose an animation from the window that pops up. When you choose an animation the slide shows you a preview of what the animation looks like.
Step6
Decide on the speed of the OpenOffice animation. Choose from the speeds provided in the pull down-menu and then click "OK."
Step7
Choose a start time for the animation and a direction of movement of the animation from the options provided.
Step8
Preview the slide show. Click "Preview" in the Slide show menu.
Step9
Save the presentation. Choose "Save" in under the File menu.

Tips & Warnings

  • Impress allows you to add animated clip art to your presentation.
  • Play and edit Impress documents in Microsoft PowerPoint. PowerPoint presentations also open and allow you to edit them in Impress.
  • Save your presentation every few minutes in case something happens to your computer while you are working.

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