Manual SoftMaker Presentations © 1987-2014 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 Installing on an Android device ........................................................................ 16 Purchased in Google Play Store .................................................................. 16 Purchased on our website www.softmaker.com .......................................... 16 Presentations basics 19 The application screen ...................................................................................... 19 Title bar ....................................................................................................... 20 Menu bar ..................................................................................................... 21 Standard toolbar .......................................................................................... 21 Formatting toolbar....................................................................................... 22 Object toolbar .............................................................................................. 22 Document window ...................................................................................... 23 Status bar ..................................................................................................... 24 Presentations concepts ...................................................................................... 25 Slides ........................................................................................................... 26 Objects ........................................................................................................ 28 Slide designs ............................................................................................... 30 Slide layouts ................................................................................................ 31 Color schemes ............................................................................................. 33 Text ............................................................................................................. 34 File operations .................................................................................................. 36 Beginning a new presentation ..................................................................... 36 Opening a presentation ................................................................................ 37 Saving a presentation .................................................................................. 39 Printing a presentation ................................................................................ 40 The Presentations Tour 41 Entering text ..................................................................................................... 42 Manual SoftMaker Presentations Contents iii When something goes wrong... ......................................................................... 43 Applying another slide design .......................................................................... 43 Inserting a new slide ......................................................................................... 44 Adding an image ............................................................................................... 45 Applying another color scheme ........................................................................ 46 Creating a bulleted list ...................................................................................... 47 Inserting a table ................................................................................................ 50 Applying transitions ......................................................................................... 52 Applying object animations .............................................................................. 54 Saving the presentation ..................................................................................... 56 Running the slide show ..................................................................................... 56 Finished! ........................................................................................................... 56 Working with slides 59 Creating a new presentation .............................................................................. 60 Adding a new slide ........................................................................................... 61 Inserting slides from other presentations .......................................................... 62 Navigating between slides ................................................................................ 63 Working with the mini sorter ............................................................................ 64 Working with the mini outliner ......................................................................... 65 Using the large slide sorter and outliner ........................................................... 66 Changing the order of slides ............................................................................. 67 Deleting a slide ................................................................................................. 68 Copying, cutting, and pasting slides ................................................................. 68 Duplicating a slide ............................................................................................ 68 Renaming a slide .............................................................................................. 69 Hiding a slide .................................................................................................... 69 Changing the slide design ................................................................................. 70 Changing the slide layout ................................................................................. 72 Creating headers and footers ............................................................................ 73 Footers on slides ......................................................................................... 74 Headers/footers on notes pages and handouts ............................................. 75 Changing headers/footers in master view ................................................... 75 Changing the orientation of slides .................................................................... 77 Inserting a summary slide ................................................................................. 78 Using slide color schemes and backgrounds .................................................... 79 Applying a color scheme ............................................................................. 80 Creating and editing a color scheme ........................................................... 81 Slide backgrounds ....................................................................................... 82 Adding slide transitions .................................................................................... 84 Adding object animations ................................................................................. 87 Using the sidebar .............................................................................................. 88 Adding notes ..................................................................................................... 90 iv Contents Manual SoftMaker Presentations Printing handouts .............................................................................................. 91 Working with masters 93 The Master menu .............................................................................................. 95 Changing the text formatting in masters ........................................................... 97 Notes and handout master ................................................................................. 99 Working with objects 101 Inserting objects .............................................................................................. 102 Using the object toolbar .................................................................................. 102 Selecting objects ............................................................................................. 103 Changing position and size of objects ............................................................ 104 Rotating and flipping objects .......................................................................... 105 Aligning and distributing objects .................................................................... 105 Duplicating objects ......................................................................................... 106 Hiding objects ................................................................................................. 106 Changing the order of objects ......................................................................... 107 Grouping objects ............................................................................................