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Running a Slide Show

As you develop a presentation in StarOffice, you'll probably want to run it as a slide show many times to see how it looks.

To start a slide show do any of the following:

After a few seconds, the first slide appears full-screen (see Figure 21.23).

Figure 21.23
The slide show appears full-screen, enabling you to advance the slides with the mouse or keyboard.

Note - You might notice a menu item called Display quality below the Slide show item on the View menu. This item only affects how the slides appear during editing. (A lower quality setting can improve system performance if you have graphic images in your slides.) The slide show is always presented in full color.


You can control the slide show using the mouse or keyboard, depending on the settings that you selected in the Slide Show dialog box (described in the previous section). For example, if you've deselected Change slides on mouse click, none of the mouse events listed in the table that follows will function.

Table 21.1 describes how to interact with the slide show while it is running.

Table 21.1  Slide Show Interaction via Mouse or Keyboard

Action

How to do it

Advance to the next slide

Mouse: Click the left mouse button once.

Keyboard: Press spacebar, the Enter key, or the right arrow key.

Return to the previous slide

Mouse: Click the right mouse button once.

Keyboard: Press the left arrow key.

Go to the first slide

Press the Home key.

Go to the last slide

Press the End key.

End the slide show

Press the Esc key.


Caution - Some people have a habit of double-clicking on everything. Double-clicking during a slide show advances two slides. If you happen to make this mistake, click the right button once to back up, and then click the left button once to advance the slide when you're ready.


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