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Basic Editing in Star Office Impress

StarOffice Impress Feature List - "Basic Editing"

Electronic Presentation

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Slide sort view

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Notes view

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Handout view

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Outline view

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Number of transition effects & directions

44

>40

 
 

Smooth transition effects technology

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Global and individual transitions

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Pre-set slide display time

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Pre-set times can vary

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Manual slide display control

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Continuous looping

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Set transition speed

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Preview transition effects

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Presentation rehearsal

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Jump to slide out of sequence

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Jump to URL

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Start programs

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Jump to object

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Bullet dim/build

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Screen pointer during presentation

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Live mode during presentation

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Presentation preview

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Add video clips to show

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Add sound clips to show

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User-defined buttons for screen shows

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Hidden slides

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Custom show

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Animate objects

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Transition effects for multiple objects

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Determine no. of slides in slide sort view

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Interaction

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Effect preview

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Display black & white / grey scale

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Design templates

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Summary Slide

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Auto Content Wizard

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Object Manipulation

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Group/ungroup objects

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Enter & exit grouped objects

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Name groups

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Combine objects

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Manipulate anchor points

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Manipulate control points

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Reduce number of points

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Edit bitmaps

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Rotate objects freely

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Slant selected objects

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Mirror or flip shapes

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Protect/unprotect object edit or deletion

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Relayer overlapping elements

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Resize object by stretching

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Resize object proportionally

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Snap to grid or objects

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Shear objects

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Crop elements

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Create animated objects

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Convert any object to curve or polygon

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Convert any object to 3-D object

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Connectors between objects

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"Stylist" (floating style palette with style groups)

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Smooth objects to curve or perspective

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Duplicate objects (resize, rotation & no. of copies)

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Multiple selection

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Presentation objects

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Background cache for master slide

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Color tool bar

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Search & Replace Functions

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Case-sensitive search

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Search user-defined area

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Search backwards

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Single/multiple-character wildcard

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Search for nonprinting characters

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Search and Replace in multiple files

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Macro

 
         
 

Text/Organization/Table Charts

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Automatic alignment

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Automatic indent

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Drag and drop text

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Word wrap

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Resize bullets

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Sequential numbers as bullets

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Symbols as bullets

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Superscript/subscript text

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Automatically apply multiple text formats

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Tabs

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Arbitrary line/paragraph leading

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Kerning

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Text frames/borders

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Organization charts with drawing objects

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Color / gradient & bitmap fill for chart wall

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Color / gradient & bitmap fill for chart background

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Color / gradient & bitmap fill for chart floor

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Color / gradient & bitmap fill for chart objects

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User-defined illumination effects in charts

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Cross-application settings for object fill attributes

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Zoom Function

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Zoom up to 3000%

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User-defined zoom factor

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Zoom to entire page

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Zoom to page width

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Object zoom

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Zoom history

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Normal zoom

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Keyboard Control

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Move Workplace

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Move objects

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Navigation between slides

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Quick Zoom

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Colors / Fills

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Graduated background shading/coloring

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Gradient text fill

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Bitmap text fill

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Save edited color palette

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Save/load user-defined palettes (color, gradient, bitmap)

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Save/load user-defined lines (styles & line-ends)

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Edit symbol palette

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Import/export from symbol palette via drag&drop

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Fill text with color, gradient or bitmap

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Colors / Fills

MS 2000

SO 5.1

 
 

Save/load user-defined color, gradient and bitmap palette

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Save/load user-defined line, line style and arrow ends palette

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Edit symbol palette

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Import and export from symbol palette via drag & drop

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Fill text with colors, gradients or bitmap textures

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