Manual Softmaker Presentations 2010

Manual SoftMaker Presentations 2010 © 1987-2010 SoftMaker Software GmbH Contents Welcome! 11 Technical support .............................................................................................. 12 About this manual ............................................................................................. 13 Typographical conventions ............................................................................... 13 System requirements ......................................................................................... 14 Installation and program startup 15 Installing under Windows ................................................................................. 15 Installing under Windows Mobile or Windows CE .......................................... 16 Installing under Linux....................................................................................... 16 Presentations basics 17 The application screen ...................................................................................... 17 Title bar ....................................................................................................... 18 Menu bar ..................................................................................................... 19 Standard toolbar .......................................................................................... 19 Formatting toolbar....................................................................................... 19 Object toolbar .............................................................................................. 20 Document window ...................................................................................... 20 Status bar ..................................................................................................... 22 Special instructions for Windows Mobile ................................................... 23 Presentations concepts ...................................................................................... 24 Slides ........................................................................................................... 24 Objects ........................................................................................................ 27 Slide designs ............................................................................................... 28 Slide layouts ................................................................................................ 30 Color schemes ............................................................................................. 31 Text ............................................................................................................. 33 File operations .................................................................................................. 33 Beginning a new presentation ..................................................................... 34 Opening a presentation ................................................................................ 34 Saving a presentation .................................................................................. 36 Printing a presentation ................................................................................ 37 Manual SoftMaker Presentations 2010 Contents iii The Presentations Tour 39 When something goes wrong... ......................................................................... 40 Entering text ..................................................................................................... 40 Applying another slide design .......................................................................... 41 Inserting a new slide ......................................................................................... 42 Adding an image ............................................................................................... 43 Applying another color scheme ........................................................................ 44 Creating a bulleted list ...................................................................................... 45 Inserting a table ................................................................................................ 48 Applying transitions ......................................................................................... 50 Applying object animations .............................................................................. 52 Saving the presentation ..................................................................................... 54 Running the slide show ..................................................................................... 54 Finished! ........................................................................................................... 54 Working with slides 55 Creating a new presentation .............................................................................. 56 Adding a new slide ........................................................................................... 57 Inserting slides from other presentations .......................................................... 58 Navigating between slides ................................................................................ 58 Working with the mini sorter ............................................................................ 59 Working with the mini outliner ......................................................................... 60 Using the large slide sorter and outliner ........................................................... 62 Changing the order of slides ............................................................................. 63 Deleting a slide ................................................................................................. 63 Copying, cutting, and pasting slides ................................................................. 63 Duplicating a slide ............................................................................................ 64 Renaming a slide .............................................................................................. 64 Hiding a slide .................................................................................................... 65 Changing the slide design ................................................................................. 66 Changing the slide layout ................................................................................. 67 Creating headers and footers ............................................................................ 68 Footers on slides ......................................................................................... 69 Headers/footers on notes pages and handouts ............................................. 71 Changing headers/footers in master view ................................................... 71 Changing the orientation of slides .................................................................... 72 Inserting a summary slide ................................................................................. 74 Using slide color schemes and backgrounds .................................................... 75 Applying a color scheme ............................................................................. 76 Creating and editing a color scheme ........................................................... 77 Slide backgrounds ....................................................................................... 78 Adding slide transitions .................................................................................... 79 iv Contents Manual SoftMaker Presentations 2010 Adding object animations ................................................................................. 82 Using the sidebar .............................................................................................. 83 Adding notes ..................................................................................................... 85 Printing handouts .............................................................................................. 86 Working with masters 87 The Master menu .............................................................................................. 89 Changing the text formatting in masters ........................................................... 91 Notes and handout master ................................................................................. 93 Working with objects 95 Inserting objects ................................................................................................ 95 Using the object toolbar .................................................................................... 96 Selecting objects ............................................................................................... 97 Changing position and size of objects .............................................................. 97 Rotating and flipping objects ............................................................................ 99 Aligning and distributing objects ...................................................................... 99 Duplicating objects ......................................................................................... 100 Hiding objects ................................................................................................. 100 Changing the order of objects ......................................................................... 101 Grouping objects ............................................................................................

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