How to Insert a Table in OpenOffice Impress

OpenOffice Impress--a freeware alternative to presentation software like Microsoft's PowerPoint--does not currently include support for tables as robust as PowerPoint's. Table items can, however, be created in other OpenOffice programs, such as its word processor, and copied-and-pasted into Impress slides. What Impress can do natively is create a slide that is itself entirely a table, and an interface is provided for simple tables of this kind.

Instructions

1

Click the "Add Slide" button near the top right of the Impress window.

2

Select the Table layout from the "Layouts" pane--it's the one with the picture of a standard cell table.

3

Click the top part of the slide to enter a name for your table.

4

Double-click the table icon in the lower part of the slide. A spreadsheet window (containing an interface like that in OpenOffice Calc or Microsoft Excel) will appear.

5

Click and drag the bottom right corner of the spreadsheet window to set the size of the spreadsheet (and thus of the table).

6

Click on a cell to enter data and set up a table within the spreadsheet.

7

Double-click the slide to close the spreadsheet window and then click the "Save" button (the image of the floppy disk) to convert the data you entered into a table that will occupy the entire slide.