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[140c]Slides can contain any assortment of text or graphic images. You can easily edit and manipulate these images to make custom-designed slides.
[266c]In addition to the text of a document's basic outline, you can use the symbols and free text from the Concurrence's Palette. You can also bring in pictures or images from other programs. Concurrence gives you the tools for controlling the placement of these objects.
[234c]Concurrence's palette lets you place pre-defined symbols, lines, and free text anywhere on a slide. To see the palette, simply click the Palette button (indicated below) which is located at the top left hand corner of the slide pane.
[176c]Drag the object from the palette into the slide pane and place it on your slide in the desired position. You can then move, resize, or manipulate the image to suit your needs.
[356c]You can use the Inspector and Font panels to customize objects on the palette, setting the shape, size, or color of any of the graphics, and the default font of free text. Select the item on the palette and bring up the Symbol inspector by clicking on the Inspector button (indicated below) which is located at the top left hand corner of the slide pane.
[151c]To define the font characteristics of the free text object, select it and use the Font commands, including the Font panel, found under the Format menu.
[220c]Note that if you place an object from the palette on a Master slide, the same object will appear in the same place on all of the slides that are tracking that master. Refer to Chapter 12 on Master slides for more detail.
[17c]Using the Palette
[258c]Text on slides can be divided into two distinct categories: text that is part of the hierarchy of the document (topics), and free text. Editing hierarchical text, or topics, on slides is covered more fully in the chapter on Basics of Slide Views, Chapter 9.
[153c]For general information about editing text in NeXTstep applications, refer to the Editing Text section of the documentation that came with your computer.
[15c] Text on Slides
[338c]Within the slide pane are two outline boxes. The smaller one at the top is the title box, which displays the topic that corresponds to the slide. The larger one is the body box, with the subtopics, or children of the title topic. You can move the outline boxes around on the slide by dragging them (see below under Selecting and Moving).
[81c]To add topic text to a slide, select an outline box (even an empty one) and type.
[443c]When you click a topic on a slide, its handle (the triangular marker to the topic's left) will appear. In fact, editing the topics within an outline box on a slide is the same as working in an outline view. Any editorial changes made to topic text will be propagated to all other views of the document (other slide or outline views). See Chapter 7, Basics of Outlining and Chapter 8, Default Formats, for a full explanation of outline editing.
[14c] Outline Boxes
[87c]Free text can be placed on a slide by dragging it from the Palette, as described above.
[218c]Free text is independent of the topic hierarchy and behaves more like a graphic object. It can be placed anywhere on a slide and edited without changing any of the other slides in the view or other views of a document.
[223c]To edit free text on a slide, select the text by clicking it. Edit as usual, formatting with the Ruler and the commands under the Format menu. Use the Font menu, including the Font panel, to change the font characteristics.
[10c] Free Text
[361c]You can bring images from other programs such as Diagram!
and Adobe Illustrator
into your Concurrence document using the Cut, Copy, and Paste commands found in the Edit menu. Just select an image in another program, choose Copy from the Edit menu, then return to your slide view window and choose Paste. See Chapter 13, Attachments for more on foreign images.
Images from Elsewhere
[162c]Clicking an object on a slide will select it. Resize knobs will appear around a selected object. To move an object on a slide simply drag it to its new position.
Note that a double-line will appear around a selected free text box; click between the lines to move it, or within the box to edit its text.
[20c]Selecting and moving
[245c]To select more than one object at the same time, hold down the Shift key while successively clicking each additional object that you want to have selected. To deselect an object in a multiple selection, hold down the Shift key while clicking it.
[283c]You can also select a group of objects in a region by drag-selecting. Place the cursor in a blank area in the slide pane, hold down the mouse button and drag the gray "rubberband" box to encompass the desired objects. Any objects touched by this selection rectangle will be selected.
[143c]Objects that have been selected as a group respond to mouse actions and keyboard or menu commands the same way that singly selected objects do.
[19c] Multiple Selection
[291c]To change the size of an object, first select it, and then drag any of its resize knobs to enlarge or reduce it. Depending on the direction in which you drag, you can shrink an item or stretch it. Holding down the Alternate key while dragging a resize knob maintains an object's proportions.
[426c]Most objects have eight resize knobs, one on each corner and one on each side. However, lines and free text boxes only have two resize knobs. You can change the length of a line or the width of a free text object using the resize knobs; to change the thickness of a line, use the Inspector panel, described below. When you change the width of a free text object its height changes automatically to accommodate all of its text.
Resizing Objects
[79c]To delete an object, first select it and then choose Delete from the Edit menu.
[374c]You may want to lock objects on slides to prevent them from being edited. Select such an object and choose Lock from the Arrange menu. Once an object is locked, it can be selected, but not manipulated. Note that the resize knobs on a locked object appear as displayed below, instead of the usual squares. Also, when a locked item is selected, it is drawn in lighter shades:
[90c]To unlock an object, simply select it and choose the Unlock command from the Arrange menu.
[108c]Objects which appear because they are on an object's master slide are locked. See Chapter 12, Master Slides.
[64c]Refer to Chapter 22, Arrange, for more on locking and unlocking.
Locking and Unlocking
[236c]As described more fully in Chapter 25, you can use the Symbol and Size inspectors to tweak any graphic or free text on a slide. You can use the inspectors to make precise changes to the thickness of lines, the placement of objects, etc.
[226c]Graphic objects can be arranged in rows or columns by using the commands found under the Arrange menu. The Arrange menu holds a variety of commands for carefully placing of objects. For more information, see Chapter 23, Align.
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\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i0\ul0\fs28 You can bring images from other programs such as Diagram!
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\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\f0\b0\i\ul0\fs28 You can also delete any selected object or objects by pressing the Delete key.
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