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Hour 21: Formatting and Giving Your Presentation |
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The Slide Sort view is ideal for rearranging slides after you've created a presentation. With the Slide Sort view, you can work with all the slides at once, seeing how they relate to each other in the presentation.
Tip - While working with slides in the Slide Sort view, you can double-click on any slide to switch to the most recently used full-screen view of that slide (Drawing, Notes, or Handouts view is used, depending on what you were viewing before selecting Slide Sort view). |
To select a slide in the Slide Sort view, click on it once. You'll see a heavy black outline around the slide to indicate that it's been selected.
The most useful feature of the Slide Sort view is the way it enables you to move slides around.
Suppose you have a presentation with many slides and you decide to move a slide to another position in the presentation.
While in the Slide Sort view, you can move the slide by clicking, dragging, and dropping the slide in a new location. As you drag the slide, an outline of the slide moves around the screen and a bar appears between the two slides where the slide you are dragging will be inserted when you release the mouse button (see Figure 21.11).
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Moving
slides in the Slide Sort view is guided by the slide outline and insertion bar.
In Hour 19, "Creating Presentations with StarImpress," you learned how to insert new slides into your presentation using the Slide... item on the Insert menu.
You can't directly insert slides in the Slide Sort view, but you can easily copy and paste slides. Using copy and paste enables you to duplicate a slide and then make modifications to it, saving time when the slides are similar in layout or content.
To copy and paste a slide in the Slide Sort view, follow these steps:
1. Click on the slide that you want to copy to select it.
2. Press Ctrl+C to copy the selected slide.
3. Press Ctrl+V to paste the selected slide.
Tip - You can also use the Cut, Copy, and Paste items from the Edit menu. The keyboard shortcuts are used to show how quickly you can work with slides in the Slide Sort view. |
After you have used Paste to insert a copy of a slide, you can drag that slide to a new location if necessary.
As with moving and copying slides, deleting slides is best done in the Slide Sort view because the slide sorter enables you to see how the entire presentation is affected by the deletion of a slide. As the other slides fill in the space of a deleted slide, you can see how the topics flow and the presentation improves (hopefully).
To delete a slide in Slide Sort view, follow these steps:
1. To select the slide that you want to copy, click on it.
2. Press Ctrl+X to cut the slide from the presentation. Other slides move in to fill its place.
Tip - You can also use the Delete key or the Cut item from the Edit menu to delete a slide in the Slide Sort view. |
Tip - If you realize you've made a mistake after deleting a slide, choose Undo from the Edit menu. |
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