Manual SoftMaker Presentations © 1987-2013 SoftMaker Software GmbH Contents Welcome! 11 Technical support .............................................................................................. 12 About this manual ............................................................................................. 13 System requirements ......................................................................................... 14 Installation and program startup 15 Installing under Windows ................................................................................. 15 Installing under Linux....................................................................................... 16 Presentations basics 17 The application screen ...................................................................................... 17 Title bar ....................................................................................................... 18 Menu bar ..................................................................................................... 18 Standard toolbar .......................................................................................... 19 Formatting toolbar....................................................................................... 19 Object toolbar .............................................................................................. 20 Document window ...................................................................................... 20 Status bar ..................................................................................................... 21 Presentations concepts ...................................................................................... 22 Slides ........................................................................................................... 23 Objects ........................................................................................................ 25 Slide designs ............................................................................................... 27 Slide layouts ................................................................................................ 29 Color schemes ............................................................................................. 30 Text ............................................................................................................. 32 File operations .................................................................................................. 32 Beginning a new presentation ..................................................................... 33 Opening a presentation ................................................................................ 33 Saving a presentation .................................................................................. 35 Printing a presentation ................................................................................ 36 The Presentations Tour 37 Entering text ..................................................................................................... 38 When something goes wrong... ......................................................................... 39 Applying another slide design .......................................................................... 39 Inserting a new slide ......................................................................................... 40 Manual SoftMaker Presentations Contents iii Adding an image ............................................................................................... 41 Applying another color scheme ........................................................................ 42 Creating a bulleted list ...................................................................................... 43 Inserting a table ................................................................................................ 46 Applying transitions ......................................................................................... 48 Applying object animations .............................................................................. 50 Saving the presentation ..................................................................................... 52 Running the slide show ..................................................................................... 52 Finished! ........................................................................................................... 52 Working with slides 53 Creating a new presentation .............................................................................. 54 Adding a new slide ........................................................................................... 55 Inserting slides from other presentations .......................................................... 56 Navigating between slides ................................................................................ 57 Working with the mini sorter ............................................................................ 58 Working with the mini outliner ......................................................................... 59 Using the large slide sorter and outliner ........................................................... 60 Changing the order of slides ............................................................................. 61 Deleting a slide ................................................................................................. 62 Copying, cutting, and pasting slides ................................................................. 62 Duplicating a slide ............................................................................................ 62 Renaming a slide .............................................................................................. 63 Hiding a slide .................................................................................................... 63 Changing the slide design ................................................................................. 64 Changing the slide layout ................................................................................. 66 Creating headers and footers ............................................................................ 67 Footers on slides ......................................................................................... 68 Headers/footers on notes pages and handouts ............................................. 69 Changing headers/footers in master view ................................................... 69 Changing the orientation of slides .................................................................... 71 Inserting a summary slide ................................................................................. 72 Using slide color schemes and backgrounds .................................................... 73 Applying a color scheme ............................................................................. 74 Creating and editing a color scheme ........................................................... 75 Slide backgrounds ....................................................................................... 76 Adding slide transitions .................................................................................... 78 Adding object animations ................................................................................. 81 Using the sidebar .............................................................................................. 82 Adding notes ..................................................................................................... 84 Printing handouts .............................................................................................. 85 iv Contents Manual SoftMaker Presentations 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 ................................................................................................ 96 Using the object toolbar .................................................................................... 96 Selecting objects ............................................................................................... 97 Changing position and size of objects .............................................................. 98 Rotating and flipping objects ............................................................................ 99 Aligning and distributing objects ...................................................................... 99 Duplicating objects ......................................................................................... 100 Hiding objects ................................................................................................. 100 Changing the order of objects ......................................................................... 101 Grouping objects ............................................................................................. 101 Adding object actions ..................................................................................... 102 Changing the properties of objects ................................................................. 104 Object properties, Format tab ...................................................................