


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.
