364 CHAPTER 25 IN DEPTH: IMPRESS Figure (Make my own web site)
364 CHAPTER 25 IN DEPTH: IMPRESS Figure 25-1. The Impress Presentation Wizard guides you through the creation of a new presentation. After this, you ll be invited to choose the presentation effects, including the transition effect that will separate each slide when the presentation is viewed and the speed of the transition. If you wish, you can set the pause between slides, too, as well as the length of time each slide stays on the screen. After clicking the Create button in the wizard, Impress will start, and you ll be invited to choose a layout for your initial slide. These are previewed on-screen on the right side of the program window. A variety of design templates are available, ranging from those that contain mostly text to those that feature pictures and/or graphs. Depending on which template you choose, you should end up with a handful of text boxes on your screen. Editing the text in these is simply a matter of clicking within them. The formatting of the text will be set automatically. Tip You can move and shrink each text box by clicking the handles surrounding the box. To draw a new text box, select the relevant tool on the Drawing toolbar, which runs along the bottom of the screen. Simply click and drag to draw a box of whatever size you want.