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key on your keyboard and the second text object will fade in. That's the first step added to your
presentation!
5.
You can continue to add more content to your page the same way.
6.
You may want to add an object to an existing presentation step. For example, suppose you
wanted to show a rectangle next to the text that appears as step 1. Draw a rectangle using the
Rectangle Tool. Select it with the Selector Tool (the status line shows it's on the MouseOff
layer). Right click on the object and you'll see a Presentation sub-menu in the context menu that
appears. That sub-menu itself has a Move to step sub-menu, that lists all the existing steps on
this page. Just select Step 1 to make the rectangle part of step 1. There's also a New step
option in the menu, that does the same thing as the Make new step button you used above. The
status line now shows that the selected rectangle is part of presentation step 1.
7.
Preview your page again and you'll see that when you click the right arrow key, the text and
rectangle fade in together.
8.
You can change the effect used by each step easily. Select the rectangle you just added and then
press the last button on the Presentation Toolbar titled Step transition effect. This brings up a
dialog that allows you to select a different transition instead of the default "fade" transition.
Choose Slide in from right. Preview your page again and this time when you press the right
arrow key the text and rectangle slide in from the right.
9.
If you decide that you want an object to be permanently visible, instead of part of a step, select it
and choose the Move to background button. That puts the object back on the MouseOff layer.
Try this on one of the objects you placed on a step.
10.
A quick way to create new step from an existing step is to use the Duplicate step button. Select
the rectangle and press this button. The entire step is duplicated, including the text that you didn't
select, but which was on step 1 along with the rectangle. Select the new text or rectangle and the
status line shows you it's on a new presentation step.
11.
Suppose you wanted step 3 in your presentation to become the first step instead. Select any
object that's on step 3, then use the drop-down list on the Presentation Toolbar to choose Step
1. Now all the objects that were on step 3 are now on step 1, what was step 1 has become step
2, etc. So re-ordering your steps is easy.
12.
The Designs Gallery includes some useful components for presentations, under "
Presentations" > "Presentation components". Just drag and drop a component onto your
page. Each component is added to a new step automatically for you, so it becomes the last step
on the page. If that's not what you want, use the Presentation Toolbar or the right-click
Presentation menu to move it to a different step, or to the background (MouseOff) layer.
13.
If you want to do a lot of work on a particular presentation step, try using the Page & Layer
Gallery. The gallery shows you all the presentation steps on your page, in order, since each
presentation step is in fact just a separate layer. Click on the layer/step you want to work on and
it becomes the current layer. Now anything you draw or any new text you add will be added to
that layer, instead of to the MouseOff layer. Remember to make the MouseOff layer current
again when you're done!
Converting an existing website into a presentation
In the website document, right click a page and choose Web page properties
to display the Web Properties dialog.
Click the Website tab and click the Presentation website
checkbox to select it.
The document's tab at the top of the workspace displays the
presentation document icon.
Note
: Layers within the document are not automatically turned into presentation steps when you turn a website
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