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Creating a presentation from templates
Open the Designs Gallery by clicking the Designs Gallery tab in the
Galleries bar or File > New from Designs Gallery
.
Find the Presentations
folder in the gallery and double click to expand it.
The theme folders contain collections of presentation designs and associated graphic files that each follow
a specific theme. Browse through the various theme folders until you find a design you like and double
click on the first thumbnail, named 'Presentation'.
A new presentation document opens displaying all the template pages, already populated with several
pages, each containing a number of presentation steps that already have content. A number of transitions
have already been applied to the pages and the steps.
Click Export and preview website
to see the transitions in action.
Close the preview.
Customize the text and photos using your own content, just as when editing a website document.
Creating your own presentation from scratch
This section describes the best workflow for creating a presentation page by taking you through an
example, to help you get started quickly.
Choose New > 955 pix presentation from the File
menu.
A new blank document window opens, displaying the presentation
document icon on its tab at the top of the document window.
The Presentation Toolbar also appears at the right end of the top bar. The buttons on the toolbar are
enabled only when you have something selected on the page.
1.
Use the Text Tool to add some text to your blank presentation, perhaps a heading at the top of
the page. Select this text object using the Selector Tool and look at the status line at the bottom
of the Web Designer Premium window. It will say that you have a text object selected on the
MouseOff layer. Everything on the MouseOff layer will be permanently visible in your
presentation, as if it's part of the background. So preview your page and you'll see your text
heading on the page.
2.
Now add another new text object using the Text Tool. Again, this will be placed on the
MouseOff layer and the status line will show you this when you select it with the Selector Tool.
But now let's make this text appear as the first step in this presentation.
3.
With the text selected in the Selector Tool, click the 'foot' button, which is the first button on the
Presentation Toolbar, called Make new step. Now look at the status line ? it now shows that
the selected object is on "Presentation step 1" instead of MouseOff.
4.
Preview the page again. Initially you can see only your initial text heading. Press the right arrow
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
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