Gobe Productive User's Guide - Running a Slide Show

- Working in the presentation environment
- Understanding Layers
- Using the presentation palette
- Transitions
- Running a slide show

# Running a Slide Show

Running a Slide Show | Slide Show Options | Printing the Slides

## Running a Slide Show

You can run a slide show in two ways: you can either start the presentation from the beginning of the slide show, or you can start it from your present position in the slide show.

### To Start the Slide Show from the Beginning:

Click the Start button on the Presentation palette. The slide show begins from the first slide, no matter which slide is presently selected in the Presentation palette.

- To move to the next slide, press the right arrow key or click the primary mouse button.
- To go back to the previous slide, press the left arrow key.
- To go to the last slide, press the [END] key.
- To go back to the beginning of the slide show, press the [HOME] key.
- To stop the presentation and return to the normal workspace, press the [ESC] key.

### To Start the Slide Show from your Present Position:

1. Select the slide from which you want to start the presentation.
2. Click the Start Here button on the Presentation palette.
3. The slide show begins from that selected slide. To move around the presentation, see the bullets above.

- This option is very useful when you are working with the slides and do not want to see the whole presentation, but rather just want to see how certain slides look.

## Slide Show Options

There are a few options you can set for running a slide show.

> Auto-Start: When this menu item is checked on the Options menu in the Presentation palette, the slide show automatically begins when the file is opened. This is useful for slide shows you want to start-up automatically, without showing your audience the design screen.

> Cursor: The cursor is displayed during the slide show. Useful if you want to point at things on the screen.

## Printing the Slides

Use the normal printing features of Gobe Productive to print out your slide show. Gobe Productive automatically scales each slide to fit one slide on each printed page. Slides usually look best when printed in landscape direction. For more information about setting the printing direction (landscape or portrait) see the Page Setup topic in the Basics section. For more information about initiating a print job, see the How to Print topic in the Basics section.

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