NWE Help: StarOffice: Impress

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You can easily make slide shows using StarOffice. Like most office suites, StarOffice has many components including the slide show, word processor, and spreadsheet applications. To make a slide show, you'll be using StarOffice's slide show program, Impress. To start a new slide show, open StarOffice and then click on File -- > New -- > Presentation. Then, this window pops up:

This is the first screen of a walkthrough for creating your slide layout. Each window will ask you to pick colors and layout options from available menus. Once you've gone through this simple setup, you'll be ready to add the content to your slides.

Using StarOffice Impress, you can embed video and sound in to the slide show. To do so, click on Insert --> Object --> and then Sound or Video for whichever you'd like to include.

On some of the computers, you won't be able to do embed video or sound into your clips. If that happens, you can insert a hyperlink to the sound or video from your slide. While this means the video or sound won't automatically play, you will be able to click on the hyperlink to play the sound or video. To insert a hyperlink, click on Insert --> Hyperlink and then click Document from the left hand list, and then use the folder in the top right to browse to the file, select the file, and press Apply and then close. The hyperlink will now link to the video or sound file.

You can also easily export your slides into HTML pages. HTML pages can be used in any web browser while retaining the same look and functionality, which will help ensure support if you use your slides on a computer without StarOffice, PowerPoint, or another slide show program. To export your slides to HTML, simply click File -- > Export, then in the box that pops up, name the file and make sure the drop-down menu shows "webpage." StarOffice will then ask you some questions to determine the layout of the slides on the web. Make your choices and click create.

Slide show web pages won't be the best web pages, but they are smaller files than actual slide shows and they will work on more machines than any regular slide shows will.