Much of the outline view's functionality is available in Writer's Navigator (although not, strangely, in Impress' Navigator), but the outline view in Impress has the advantage of defaulting to a more easily readable size.įigure 2: Impress is ideal for creating flash-cards for studying and memorization. When you are finished, you can save the outline as HTML or as an image to display it in Writer. On the toolbar are buttons for raising or lowering the current level as you work. For some reason, Impress does not support numbered lists, but you can distinguish levels by selecting Format | Lists | Bulleted List, which gives each level a different bullet. To create a sub-level in the outline view, all you need to do press Tab once for each level at the start of a line. All you need to do is ignore the Slide Pane on the left side of the editing window – in fact, while outlining you can close the pane altogether. Although this view is intended for planning an entire slideshow, it can easily be used to outline a text document. In fact, it already has one in Impress' View | Outline (Figure 1). People often ask for outlining tools in LibreOffice. Here are some of the most useful advanced ways to use Impress. However, all these extras can give an added edge to your presentation – in fact, a few even have purposes that have nothing to do with slide shows at all. Some of this extra functionality is in the menus waiting to be discovered, while other functions require the installation of extensions, which can be added to Impress via Tools | Extension Manager, then restarting LibreOffice. However, just as Writer is good for more than bashing out a memo, so Impress can do far more than produce a generic presentation. Over the years, Impress has steadily improved, until today it is a match in most ways for Microsoft Powerpoint. And that is, of course, its main purpose. If asked, most users would say that the purpose of LibreOffice Impress is to create slide shows.

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