Top Tutorials
The Slide Show Toolbar
When running a slide show, a subtle toolbar appears in the bottom left corner of the screen. This toolbar allows you to navigate, pause and annotate your slide show.
The Slide Show toolbar is not visible until you point the mouse cursor in the bottom left corner, when it will suddenly spring into action.
The Next Slide and Previous Slide buttons offer an alternative way to the keyboard of navigating slides.
Jump to a specific slide
The toolbar offers a way of jumping to a particular slide of the presentation.
- Click the Slide Selection button on the toolbar
- Select Go To Slide from the Slide Selection menu
- Select the slide that you want to move to from the list
The contents of the Slide Title placeholder is used to identify each slide. If you do not enter a slide title, it will be refered to by its slide number
Annotate slides
You can draw on your slides to bring attention to a particular area. The toolbar provides pens and a highlighter for this purpose.
- Click on the Annotate Slides button (pen) on the toolbar
- Select the pen type or highlighter from the menu
- Drag the mouse pointer to annotate your slide
The mouse cursor is changed to a coloured dot ready for drawing
Press the Esc key to change back to the arrow pointer. You need the arrow pointer to be able to continue with the slide show
A shortcut to turning the pen on for annotation is to press Ctrl + P
Change ink colour
- Click the Annotate Slides button on the toolbar
- Point to Ink Color in the menu
- Select the ink colour you want from the palette of colours
Erase the Annotations
- Click the Annotate Slides button on the toolbar
- Click Erase All Ink on Slide or press E to remove all annotation from the slide
Or
Click Erase to change the mouse pointer to an eraser
- Click and drag across annotations to be deleted
If slide annotations are not removed, at the end of the slide show you are prompted to either save the ink markings or to discard them.
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