Creating a Slide Show from OOo's Built-in TemplatesOOo has a couple of canned presentations you can use. Bring up the templates, add your text, and you have a quick presentation, all ready to go. Start OOo and select File > New. Choose Templates and Documents from the bottom of the list. Select the "Introducing a New Product" template. The basic slide show outline appears in the main slide-editing window, ready for your customization. Making a slide from a template. Highlight the "title" in the middle of the screen, and change it to your own topic. You can select another slide to edit from the slide thumbnails to the left of the main slide-editing window. Each slide has hints that you can replace with your corresponding information. Introducing a new product. As you fill in the information for your product, it's a good idea to periodically save your slide show by selecting File > Save As. Give your slide show a name, and make note of the directory so that you can find it again. OpenOffice.org fills in the default file extension of .odp. Saving your slide show. |