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Setting Presentation and Slide Show Options


StarOffice provides many different settings for preparing and running a presentation. You can choose from among these options using two dialog boxes: one for general presentation settings and one for slide show options.

Setting Presentation Options

You can open the Presentations Options dialog box by selecting Presentations on the Options submenu under the Tools menu. This dialog box, shown in Figure 21.17, includes settings for what is displayed and how graphic snap and grids function, and for various layout and measurement options.

Figure 21.17
The Presentation Options dialog box includes settings for display choices, drawing with graphics tools, and measurement options.

The Contents tab contains options for how objects are displayed in slides as you create them. You can select a checkbox to make any of the following substitutions in the slide display:

In the Layout tab (shown in Figure 21.18), you can set which items to display to assist you with slide layout:

Figure 21.18
In the Layout tab, select which tools are displayed to assist with slide layout and how measurements are calculated.

In addition to these display options, in this tab you can set the distance between tab stops and choose a measurement unit such as inches, picas, or centimeters.

Note - The Measurement units drop-down list includes Miles and Kilometers in addition to inches, millimeters, and picas. Who knows how they ended up on the list, but they're not much help in building a slide.


The Snap tab (shown in Figure 21.19) and the Grid tab (which is the same as the Grid tab in the Spreadsheet Options dialog box) are both used to assist in precisely positioning graphics and objects within a slide.

Figure 21.19
The Snap tab defines how snap-to functions operate when creating objects that need to be aligned with other items (such as the grid or page margins).

For example, you can use the Snap tab to define that when an object is moved to within 5 pixels of the page margin, it is automatically snapped to the page margin. This helps you line up all the objects on your slides.

Note - The Print tab is described later in this hour. It can also be accessed from the Options... button on the Print dialog box (which is opened from the File menu).

Setting the Slide Show Options

The options that apply to running a slide show are not part of the Presentation Options dialog box. Instead, you can find them by selecting Presentation Settings from the Presentation menu. The Slide Show dialog box appears (see Figure 21.20).

Figure 21.20
In the Slide Show dialog box you can select settings that define how your slide presentation will be run.

The following list describes each of the features that you can select in the Slide Show dialog box (most of the default settings will be acceptable):

Tip - An item on the Other tab of the Presentation Options dialog box (in the Options submenu under Tools menu) enables you to choose to start a slide show from the current slide. This option is not selected by default.


Figure 21.21
You can select automatic slide advance with a timed delay in the Slide Transition window.

Figure 21.22
The Navigator window can be displayed during a presentation to help you move among the slides in your presentation.

After you select options for your slide show, choose OK in the Slide Show dialog box to apply your settings and close the dialog box.

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