Creating a slide show

Creating slides

Creating slides involves adding text and graphics, choosing slide backgrounds, and specifying a transition method for each slide. A slide show can have any number slides, and any combination of transitions. When your slides are complete you can view them as a slide show.

Viewing your slides

You can view your slides in two ways: Slide Edit View, and Slide Sorter View. Slide Edit view displays one slide at a time and is the view you will use when creating and editing slides. Slide Sorter View displays thumbnails of all slides in your show and is the view you'll use to reorder slides. You can switch between the views using the buttons on the Presentations for Java toolbar.

Adding text and graphics

Corel Presentations for Java provides a variety of tools to create text and graphics. The Text and Bulleted Text tools allow you to add text anywhere on a slide. To create graphic objects, you can choose from the Freehand, Bezier, Rectangle, Ellipse, and Polygon tools.

Adding backgrounds

Slide backgrounds allow you to add color to your presentations. For each slide you can specify a solid or gradient color background, or choose to have no background. For a consistent appearance, you can choose to apply the same background to all slides.

Adding transitions

A transition specifies how the slides are displayed in the completed slide show. Presentations for Java provides two types of slide transitions: manual and automatic. Manual transitions require you to use the mouse buttons to move through the slide show. Automatic transitions require you to specify the number of seconds a slide remains on-screen before advancing to the next slide.

Tips

pre00002.gif If you drag a slide in Slide Sorter View, the vertical red bar indicates the position the slide will take when you release the mouse button. Presentations for Java automatically renumbers each slide to reflect the new order.

pre00002.gif Double-clicking a slide in Slide Sorter View brings the slide into the Slide Editor View.

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To add slides

To create text areas

To create bullet text

To delete slides

To edit slides

To select a gradient background

To select a solid background

To select a slide view

To clear a slide

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Questions to keep in mind for a successful slide show

Playing the slide show