Now that you have finished creating your first presentation, it's time to learn how to play it back one slide at a time as a slide show, save it for future use, load a presentation that you've saved so that you can use it, and print a presentation. Playing a Presentation as a Slide ShowTo play back a presentation as a slide show, select Slide 1 in the Slide pane or select the slide where you would like the show to start (remember to use the arrow buttons to scroll the tabs if you can't see the tab you want). Then, when the first slide is selected, choose Slide Show, Slide Show from the menu bar at the top of the Impress application window or press your F5 key. When you start the slide show, your display clears and the first slide of your presentation fills the entire screen. In Slide Show mode, click the mouse button or press the right-arrow key to proceed to the next slide. Press the left-arrow key to return to the previous slide. When you want the slide show to end or want to return to your desktop, press the Escape key. Saving, Loading, and Printing PresentationsIf you've already finished studying the preceding two chapters on OpenOffice.org Writer and OpenOffice.org Calc, you're probably familiar with the process of saving, loading, and printing documents in OpenOffice.org applications. Just in case you need it, here's a quick refresher:
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