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PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual
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PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual

by E. A. Vander Veer
January 2007
Beginner
320 pages
7h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Presenting Your Slideshow

The control you have when it comes time to present your slideshow depends on how you've chosen to set up your slideshow: as full-screen, browser, or kiosk mode (see Section 7.1.1).

  • Full-screen mode. Right-clicking your mouse while you're running a slideshow in full-screen mode kicks up a context menu that lets you choose how to present your slideshow, as you can see in Figure 7-10. But most folks find it quicker (and less distracting to the audience) to use the keyboard shortcuts described in Table 7-1. In addition, when you run a slideshow in full-screen mode, you see the ghosted controls shown back in Figure 7-2, and you can control your presentation with a remove control.

    Table 7-1. Key Strokes for Navigating Your Slideshow

    Table 7-1. 

    To Do This

    Press This

    Go forward one slide

    Enter, Space, Page Down, N, click, right-arrow, down-arrow

    Back up one slide

    Backspace, Page Up, P, left-arrow, up-arrow

    Jump directly to a specific slide, even if it's hidden (Section 7.1.2)

    Type the slide number and then press Enter, or right-click the slide and, from the menu that appears, click the title of the slide you want to go to

    Scroll back and forth through slides quickly

    Roll the wheel on your mouse

    Black out the presentation

    B or . (period)

    White out the presentation

    W or , (comma)

    End the slideshow

    Esc or Ctrl+Break

    Hide the cursor (pointer)

    = (A to show pointer again)

    Start drawing (annotating) electronically on a slide using your mouse or a ...

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