[184c]The Tools menu gives you access to panels for seeing and setting the attributes of slides and their contents, including colors and other graphical attributes, sound, attachments, etc.
[365c]This command raises the standard Color panel. Use the Color panel to pick a color, then drag it to one of the color wells in the Color inspector or the Font panel. See Chapter 25, Inspectors, for more on the Color inspector, and Chapter 19, Format, to read about the Font panel. The Color panel itself is described in the documentation that came with your computer.
[6c]Colors
[96c]Choose Inspector to raise the Inspector panel. See Chapter 25, Inspectors, for more information.
[13c]Inspector (0)
[110c]The panel raised by this command is the Palette, the source of graphic symbols and free text boxes for slides.
[76c]Drag symbols and text boxes from the Palette and drop them
on your slides.
[105c]To add a symbol or text box to a slide, click the item in the palette, drag it to the slide, and release.
[240c]You can customize the objects on the Palette. Instead of dragging, click a symbol on the palette to edit its shape, size and color(s) with the Inspector panel. You can also select the text box and set its font and color with the Font panel.
[111c]For more on using symbols and text boxes in slides, see Chapter 10, Editing Slides, and Chapter 25, Inspectors.
[11c]Palette (5)
[275c]Choose Play to raise the Play panel, which lets you configure and run an on-screen slide show. The settings you make on the Play panel take effect whenever the current slide show is played, whether clicking the Play button on the slide pane, or that on the Play panel itself.
Use the Play panel to configure and run on-screen slide shows.
[8c]Play (6)
[139c]Use these buttons to choose between Automatic and Manual play of slide shows. This setting comes into effect when a Play button is clicked.
[195c]During Automatic play, each slide is left on the screen for the duration specified in the Delay before Showing Next Slide field of the Slide inspector, and then replaced with the following slide.
During Manual play, you must click the Next button or press the space bar to advance from slide to slide.
[18c] Automatic, Manual
[204c]When the Take Over Screen checkbox is selected, clicking the Play button causes your slide show to hide all of the windows on the computer screen. If necessary, slides will be expanded to fill the screen.
[17c] Take Over Screen
[201c]If the Play Sounds checkbox is selected, the sounds attached to slides (if any) will be played as the slides are displayed during slide show play. If the button is not selected, sounds will be ignored.
Play Sounds
[242c]Normally, slide show play stops when the last slide is finished. However, if Repeat Show is selected, the slide show will progress from the last slide to the first, and so on forever until the Stop button is clicked or the Esc key is pressed.
Repeat Show
[234c]With the Slide inspector, a transition effect can be attached to a slide. If the Show Slide Transitions checkbox is selected, these effects are used to segue from slide to slide. If the button is not selected, transitions are ignored.
[23c] Show Slide Transitions
[219c]When Start From Selected Slide is selected, clicking a Play button will start the slide show playing from the currently selected slide. Normally, when this box is unselected, slide shows are played from the first slide.
[26c] Start From Selected Slide
[453c]Use the buttons at the base of the Play panel to start and stop a slide show, and to navigate through its slides. Click the Play button to start a slide show, or to continue one that has been paused. Click Stop to end a slide show. Pause will leave a slide show running, but keep it from advancing until you click Play, or Pause once again. Click Next to display the next slide in a show. Click Previous to show the preceding slide, and Pause the show.
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