Operation Manual

3 Press the Space bar to play the slideshow.
As the playhead moves over the selected slide in the Browser, the duration counter in
the overlay counts the number of seconds. The playhead stops when it reaches the end
of the slide, but the duration counter continues to count.
4 Press Return to stop the counter and set the current slide’s display duration.
The playhead moves to the next slide in the Browser.
5 Repeat step 4 until the duration of each slide is set.
6 When you have finished, click Done.
Changing the Background Color for Individual Slides
You can change the background color for any slide in your slideshow.
To change the background color of a specific slide or group of slides
1 Select an image or group of images in the Browser.
2 In the Selected Slides pane of the Slideshow Editor, select the Background checkbox.
Pop-up color palette
Make sure this checkbox
is selected.
Click here to select
a color from the
Colors window.
Click here to select
a color from the
pop-up color palette.
3 Do one of the following:
• Click the Background color well, then select a color from the Colors window.
• Click the disclosure button to the right of the color well, then choose a color from the
pop-up color palette.
The new background color is applied to the selected slide or group of slides.
711Chapter 21 Creating Slideshow Presentations