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[223c]The lessons in this chapter build on the skills you learned in Chapter 3, Building an Outline. If you haven't read that chapter, and the terms topic, sibling, expand and default format don't mean anything to you, turn back.
[144c]Most people create their slide presentations from existing outlines. Here you'll use the "Impact of Technology" outline of the previous chapter.
[72c]If Concurrence isn't already running, find its icon and double-click it.
[127c]Choose the Samples command from Concurrence's Info menu. This will open a window in your Workspace onto a folder named Samples.
[191c]One of the documents visible in this window is named TechImpact.concur. Select this document and choose Open from the Workspace's File menu. You should see the "Impact of Technology" outline.
[82c]To see the list of views of this document, choose View Browser from the View menu.
[63c]When the View Browser appears, click its New Slide View button.
[322c]A slide view window appears. On its left are two gray panes, which are its master sorter and its slide sorter. In these are displayed miniature versions of the view's slides and master slides. The large white region on the right is the slide view's slide pane, where you will view and edit the slides of your presentation.
[348c]Much of what you learned in the last chapter about outline views is true of slide views as well. Because a slide view is just another view of a document, changes that you make in a slide view are immediately reflected in all other views as well. And operations like expanding, collapsing, and rearranging topics are the same in dealing with slides.
[29c]How Slides Are Like Outlines
[114c]A slide can be made for each topic in a document. The topic that corresponds to a slide is displayed as its title.
[169c]The slide you're looking at has the title "The impact of technology on our future." You should notice that this is the same as the first topic of the outline you opened.
[53c]Select the word "technology" (double-click it). Type:
[9c] wizardry
[185c]Now look back at the outline view window. You should see that the word "wizardry" you typed appeared in the outline's first topic, letter by letter, as you typed it into the slide view.
Now, back in the slide view, select the word "future" (double-click it).
[75c]Choose Italic from the Font submenu of the Format menu (or type Command-i).
[284c]"Future" is now italicized in your slide view, but it hasn't changed in the outline view. Just as when you created multiple outline views, cosmetic formatting changes only apply locally. However structural changes (like typing) apply globally, and appear in all of a document's views.
[31c] Slide Views Are Concurrent Too
[201c]As noted above, there are two gray panes on the left of a slide view window. The lower, taller one is the slide sorter. Here there appear miniature versions, or minislides, of all of the view's slides.
[302c]There should be one minislide in the sorter of the slide view you're working with. Looking at it, you should see a familiar looking triangular mark. Minislides, like topics, have handles to indicated their expanded or collapsed state. This one is pointing to the right, indicating that it is collapsed.
[193c]Select the minislide (click it) and choose Expand from the Topic menu (or double-click the minislide). Four child minislides will appear below and slightly to the right of the one you expanded.
[160c]Notice that the top minislide's handle points down now. Just as with a topic in an outline, this indicates that the slide is expanded; its children are visible.
[206c]There is something else you should notice. There are four lines of text in the large body box of the slide currently displayed. There are also four newly exposed child minislides. This is not a coincidence.
Expanding Minislides
[213c]Each line of text in the slide's body box is a topic, and a child of the slide's title topic. The four child slides you exposed by expanding the first minislide correspond to the body topics you're looking at now.
[186c]Browse through the slides in the slide sorter by clicking the minislides one after the other. Each time you select a slide in the sorter, its text appears in the slide pane to the right.
[331c]The sorter isn't the only thing in the outline view that works like an outline. Select the first slide in the slide sorter by clicking its icon. Click on the first topic in the slide pane ("Introduction"). Notice that handles appear in front of all the topics in the box. You can now edit these topics just as in an outline window.
For example, in the slide pane, select and expand (double-click its handle) the first topic, "Introduction." You'll see that it has two children, "This document provides
," and "The goal of the paper
[122c]Now select the last topic in the slide pane, "On Politics and Government," and press the Return key to create a new topic.
[209c]As soon as you created the new topic, a new minislide appeared in the slide sorter. Again, remember that a slide's children can appear both as the topics in its body box, and as child minislides in the sorter.
[24c] From Each Topic a Slide
Each minislide has a number on its lower left corner. Select minislide number two.
[161c]Notice that the display in the slide pane changed. The two boxes are in the same place, but they display different text now. You're now viewing slide number two.
This slide's title is "Introduction." You may remember that this is the same as the first body topic in the first slide, above.
[47c]Drag minislide two to the bottom of the sorter.
[49c]Click minislide one to view it in the slide pane.
[304c]"Introduction" is now the last topic in this slide's body box, just as the slide you moved is the last in the sorter. When you move a slide in the sorter, you move its topic in the document's hierarchy. Every other view of this document, whether a slide view or an outline view, will reflect this change.
[15c] Moving Slides
[337c]A slide doesn't have to be a stark pair of boxes and text. It can be decorated with a variety of basic geometric symbols, or with any picture you can paste in from any other program. You can use all of the colors of the spectrum in decorating your slides, and use Concurrence's precision tools to make fine adjustments to your creations.
[14c]Editing Slides
[96c]You can add graphic symbols, lines, and free text to your slides by using Concurrence's palette.
[93c]To see the palette, click the palette button in the upper left hand corner of the slide pane.
[312c]Select the first minislide in the slide sorter. Drag the circle symbol from the palette onto the slide's body box in the slide pane, placing it in the lower left hand corner. Note that when you've placed it on the slide pane, a miniaturized circle also appears on the corresponding minislide in the slide sorter.
[153c]The free text icon lets you put text anywhere on a slide. Drag the free text icon from the palette to a space next to the circle on the slide pane. Type:
The NeXT Century
[249c]Look at the outline view of this document and note that the text you typed doesn't appear anywhere. "Free" text will only appear where you put it on the slide; it is independent of the hierarchy of the document and won't be found in any other views.
[112c]Select the circle you put on the slide by clicking it. You will see eight resize knobs appear at the periphery.
[73c]Anytime an object on a slide is selected, its resize knobs are displayed.
[18c] Using the Palette
[233c]To make the circle smaller, grab one of the resize knobs and drag it towards the center of the circle. To keep the same circular shape, hold down the Alternate key while you drag a resize knob. Otherwise you may end up with an oval.
[245c]To move an object, grab it and drag it to a new position on the slide. (Note that something doesn't have to be selected before you can move it.) Drag the circle from the lower left to the upper right hand corner of the slide, next to the title.
[301c]Select the free text box "The NeXT Century". Note that when you select a free text box, a double-line appears around the edges, and there are only two resize knobs. Click between the lines to move the box (click within the box itself to edit the text). Drag the free text above the title of the slide.
[277c]Drag one of the text box's resize knobs toward the center of the box and watch what happens to the text as the box gets smaller. The text itself stays the same size, but if the width of the box gets too small for all the text to fit on the same line, it wraps to the next line.
[198c]To change the size of the text itself, you need to use the commands on the Font submenu of the Format menu. Select the whole text by triple-clicking it. Bring up the Font submenu and choose Smaller.
To remove a graphic object or free text from a slide, simply select it and press the Delete key (or choose Delete from the Edit menu). Select the circle and delete it (all that hard work for nothing!).
[20c] Moving and Resizing
The Inspector panel lets you change the shape, color, or size of a symbol.
Select the last minislide in the slide sorter. Drag a square from the palette onto the slide pane. With the square selected, click the Inspector button in the upper left hand corner of the slide pane.
[50c]You will see a window appear that looks like this:
The square is highlighted in the window. To change the square on your slide to another shape, simply click any one of the other shapes on the Symbol inspector.
Click the pop-up button on the Inspector panel that now says Attributes and choose Size. By default symbols on the palette are redrawn on the slide pane with width and height both equal to 100. Change the width of your symbol by double-clicking the width and typing in a new number, like 50, and pressing Return.
[196c]Thickness refers to the thickness of the border around the symbol. Play with the thickness of your symbol's border by dragging the slide to the right or left to increase or decrease the thickness.
[376c]Click the pop-up button at the top again and choose Color. You can choose whether or not your symbol has a border or casts a shadow, and also select the type of fill. Click the pop-up button in the middle of the window that currently says Solid, and choose Concentric. See how your symbol now has a graded fill? Change the way the fill looks by clicking any of the mini-icons.
[94c]Play with the way your symbol looks by trying out different functions on the Symbol inspector.
[307c]You can customize any of the objects on the palette by selecting a symbol on the palette (don't drag it anywhere) and bringing up the Inspector panel. Try this. Make the diamond symbol into an oval with no shadow. Since it's on the palette, you can drag as many copies of it into the slide pane as you want.
[26c] Using the Inspector Panel
[252c]Master slides control the formatting for all of the slides in the slide view. By changing the attributes of master slides, you can control how all of the other slides in the view look. The master sorter is in the top left hand corner of the slide view.
[158c]You should have one minislide in the master sorter for your slide view. Select it by clicking it. You will see its text appear in the slide pane to the right.
[13c]Master Slides
[166c]Select the master slide again in the master sorter. Raise the Inspector panel (click the Inspector button on the slide pane), and choose Color from its pop-up button.
[267c]With the pop-up button in the fill section of the Color inspector, select a background fill for your slide. For example, choose Linear, and click one of the fill-style miniboxes. When you choose a background for your master slide, all of the other slides follow suit.
[87c]Use the Color inspector to set colors and color
blends of selected slides and symbols.
[235c]You can also use the color inspector to hide the edges of the master's outline boxes. First, select the body box by clicking it. Now raise the Inspector panel (by clicking the Inspector button), and choose Color from its pop-up button.
[175c]You are now inspecting the colors of the master slide's body outline box. Click the Border button to deselect it. You'll see the box around the master slide's title disappear.
Now select the title box and use the same procedure to hide its border as well.
Setting the Background
[295c]You can have more than one master slide per view. Select the master slide (currently the only one for this document) by clicking it in the master sorter. Press the Return key, and a new master appears in the master sorter. And because it's selected, its text shows up in the adjacent slide pane.
[276c]Experiment with this new master. Select the title text (click it in the slide pane) and change its font with the Font commands of the Format menu. Bring up the Ruler (choose Show Ruler from the Format menu) and make the title text flush left by clicking the left justify icon.
[207c]Now select the body text, and, one level at a time, use the Ruler to justify the topics flush right. Double click the handle of the last body topic to expose another topic level. Make it right-justified too.
[111c]Use the Color inspector to turn off the outline boxes, if you like, by following the procedure described above.
More Than One Master
[76c]Now you need to apply the new master to some of the slides in your document.
[48c]Select the second minislide in the slide sorter.
[260c]After you've selected the slide, click the new master slide in the master sorter. (Note that slide number two still has a selection box outlined in black around it in the slide sorter.) Now click the Set Master button in the bottom corner of the master sorter.
[159c]You will see that slide two adopts the format of the new master. It is now tracking this master. Changes made to the new master will be reflected in this slide
[129c]For a more thorough discussion of master slides, including how to break and restore tracking, read the Chapter 12, Master Slides.
Applying a Master
[327c]You've built your slides for a purpose, to show them in a presentation. You can print them to paper or to overhead transparencies. You can send your document to a service bureau to have them produced on 35mm slides. Or, as described here, you can use your computer as your medium, displaying your work in an on-line slide show.
You can use the Inspector panel to set effects to transition from slide to slide.
Playing a Slide Show
[279c]Select one of the master slides and bring up the Master Slide inspector, if it isn't already on the screen (if you've never closed the Inspector window it will still be there). Select Attributes from the Inspector panel's pop-up button. The Inspector panel should look like this:
[89c]Click the Play button at the bottom right hand corner of the slide pane and watch it go!
When the slide show finishes playing, Command-click the Play button (hold down the Command key and click the mouse). This will raise the Play panel, which will give you a little more control over how the slides will play. You can also select Play from the Tools menu.
[46c]Use the Play panel to run on-line slide shows.
Select the Take Over Screen button, click the Play button, and watch what happens.
Playing a Slide Show
[652c]In these two tutorial chapters, you've gotten an overview of the basics of working with Concurrence. You can make an outline, and from it design a slide show. (Note that you don't have to start with outlines, it's just as easy to go the other way around.) You've learned many of the concepts of working with slides, including how to use master slides to control formats, and how to take over the screen and play a slide show. Explore the program to find out what other kinds of things you can do. Use your imagination! If you need more help, look through the other chapters in this manual, especially the Concepts section and the first two appendices.
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\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i0\ul0\fs28 In these two tutorial chapters, you've gotten an overview of the basics of working with Concurrence. You can make an outline, and from it design a slide show. (Note that you don't have to start with outlines, it's just as easy to go the other way around.) You've learned many of the concepts of working with slides, including how to use master slides to control formats, and how to take over the screen and play a slide show. Explore the program to find out what other kinds of things you
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