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| title=Apache OpenOffice Impress |
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| *More power to your presentations* |
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| **Impress** is a truly outstanding tool for creating effective multimedia |
| presentations. Your presentations will stand out with 2D and 3D clip art, |
| special effects, animation, and high-impact drawing tools. |
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| *Master Pages* simplify the task of preparing your materials. Save even more |
| time by [downloading templates][1] from our Extensions repository. |
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| A *complete range of Views* are supported: Drawing / Outline / Slides / Notes / |
| Handouts to meet all the needs of presenters and audiences, plus an optional |
| multi-pane view to put all the tools at your fingertips. |
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| **Impress** supports multiple monitors, so that presenters can look at something |
| else while presenting their slides on a projector. Make the most of this With |
| the free [Presenter Console Extension][2], which lets you see your next slides |
| as well as the time and the speaker notes. |
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| **Impress** has a complete range of *easy-to-use drawing and diagramming tools* |
| to spice up your presentation. |
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| 'Park' your most commonly used drawing tools around your screen ready for |
| single-click access. |
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| *Slide show Animation and Effects* bring your presentation to life. Fontworks |
| provides stunning 2D and 3D images from text. Create lifelike 3D images with |
| astounding speed and response. |
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| Save your presentations in OpenDocument format, the new international standard |
| for office documents. This XML based format means you're not tied in to |
| **Impress**. You can access your presentations from any OpenDocument compliant |
| software. |
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| Of course, you are free to use your old Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, or |
| save your work in PowerPoint format for sending to people who are still locked |
| into Microsoft products. Alternatively, use **Impress**'s built-in ability to |
| create Flash (.swf) versions of your presentations. |
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| [1]: http://templates.openoffice.org "Download Apache OpenOffice Templates" |
| [2]: http://extensions.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen "Download the Presenter Console Extension" |
