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