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Anyone Used Open Office Impress? Thoughts?

by Steve Wells
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I was curious as to if anyone has used open office impress for presentations, similar to powerpoint I think? What are your thoughts?

Anyone know why its offered free?

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#impress #office #open #thoughts
  • Profile picture of the author ikosuave
    All of OpenOffice is offered for free to be a bit of a beat-down to MS...

    OpenOffice is an alternative to everything MS and gives you some functionality that MS doesn't (although there are slight issues with compatibility sometimes)...

    I use Google Docs for almost everything and then presentations through Keynote (although some of my outsourcers do their work in PPT)
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve Hines
      I use it almost exclusively now. I can't afford all the MS licenses, and get every bit of functionality from OO that I got from MS products. Of course there are differences, but after a week of using it, you'll be fine.

      Between OO for my office applications, the GIMP for my image editing and Wordpress for my websites, I don't have to pay the costs for MS Office, Photoshop and Dreamweaver any more.

      Loves me some open source goodness.... Pros and cons, but saving the money is enough of a pro for me.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steve Wells
        Originally Posted by hines418 View Post

        I use it almost exclusively now. I can't afford all the MS licenses, and get every bit of functionality from OO that I got from MS products. Of course there are differences, but after a week of using it, you'll be fine.

        Between OO for my office applications, the GIMP for my image editing and Wordpress for my websites, I don't have to pay the costs for MS Office, Photoshop and Dreamweaver any more.

        Loves me some open source goodness.... Pros and cons, but saving the money is enough of a pro for me.
        I have all the expensive adobe products, got to, I'm a graphic designer. But I was thinking about doing some powerpoint type screen presentation recordings and needed my powerpoint to work but I can't find my free trial code, and dont want to spend 150.00 for the package.

        So, I was considering trying to use open office's product impress for presentation type screen recordings.

        Just wanted to know if anyone has used that? Is it easy? Or similar to Powerpoint? I noticed they have animation possiblilities too.
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        • Profile picture of the author Steve Hines
          It's close enough for me. There are differences, but if you use it for a bit, it does just fine. I know some people hate it, but I've found that OO takes care of 99% of the office needs that I have.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tyrus Antas
    It is offered for free because it sucks. And even for
    free it's not very successful.

    I've used OO for quick word processing sessions or
    to mess around with some spreadsheets. It gets the
    job done.

    Tyrus
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  • Profile picture of the author Justin Boland
    It's simple and it's powerful. I've been using it for ebook projects lately.

    I've really never seen a "good" word processor from anyone, so perhaps my standards are low, but: it does everything I need it to. I can't imagine why anything else would matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author dinner
    I use Impress and it works fine, it reminds me of PowerPoint from MS Office 95.
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  • Profile picture of the author Searchlabmedia
    Depends on what you use it for, if you are just creating products and exporting to PDF, works perfect!!!
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  • Profile picture of the author Martin Percival
    Have you tried some of the online alternatives.

    I bit the bullet and went MS in the end, but for a long time I was going to base everything on SlideRocket.

    For screen-cap usage it would be a pretty good thing to try before spending on anything else. Fancy transitions etc are all covered too

    Martin
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