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101 Presentation Tips We bring you some tips and tricks for Corel Presentations. Corel, makers of the superb drawing and graphics package, Corel Draw, also have an office suite, WordPerfect 2000, of which Corel Presentations is a part. It is speedy, elegant and very intuitive to use. For a novice, Corel Presentations is easy going because it changes its menus to make them available to the user depending on what he tries to do.
Corel Presentations is in version 9 now, but some of these tips will work with earlier versions too.
66 Animated titles
You can add some interest to your slide shows by animating slide titles and subtitles. To animate a slide title or subtitle, you’ll need to create your own text box.
Click the existing placeholder box that says Double Click To Add Title or Double Click To Add Subtitle, then press Delete. If you already typed a title or subtitle, delete the text then delete the placeholder box.
Create a text box with the font, point size, and text color you want.
Click outside the text box, then select the text.
Click Slide > Object Animation.
Deselect No effect, then select the animation options you want.
If you are animating a title or subtitle in a bullet chart slide that is also uses animated bullets, by default, the bullets will display first, before the slide title or subtitle. To display the title/subtitle before the bullet chart,
Click Slide > Slide Transition.
Click the Advance tab, then click Before bullet chart.
67 Quick
While creating or playing a slide show, you can press Ctrl+Home to immediately go to the first slide in your slide show, or press Ctrl+End to go to the last slide.
68 Quick keys
Corel Presentations lets you assign functions to keys to make this quick package even speedier to use.
The QuickKeys feature is not only easy to use, it’s very useful since it can make a big difference to how poised you are during a presentation instead of fumbling and wondering which button to press.
Here’s an example: Get a blank slide. Click Insert, Graphics, ClipArt and drag a picture to the slide. Put another picture on a second slide.
Now, right-click the first slide and choose QuickKeys. When the Slide Properties dialog box opens click N and then select the radio button labeled Go To. Click the arrow at the right side of the Go To list box and select Next Slide from the list. Select the check box labeled Apply To All Slides In Slide Show and click OK to close the dialog box and apply your new selection. Choose View, Play Slide Show. After the first slide opens, press N to move to the next slide. QuickKeys can be assigned to a host of other functions too.
69 Careful drawing
If you want to be really precise about the size of your images in a presentation and need to resize them, you can do so accurately by specifying a multiplier value. For instance, specifying a multiplier value of 2 will size the object twice the original size.
70 Organization charts
Presentation programs make it possible for you to explain your company’s organizational structure very easily sometimes even to yourself! Use this program’s special organizational chart feature to be guided through the process all the appropriate menus will appear so you’ll know what to do. Once you are familiar with how to make organizational charts, you can be smooth with them. For instance, you can actually drag and drop boxes from one chart to the other. To do this
Open two files containing Organization charts.
Click Window > Tile Side by Side, so you can see both Organization charts.
Double-click each Organization chart so you can edit them.
Select the boxes you wish to move.
Drag the boxes to the other organization chart. A dotted outline indicates where the box(es) will be placed.
71 Special effects
Corel is all about images, and in its presentation program you can add special effects to the pictures you bring into your presentation. When you import a picture, double-click it and then choose Tools, Special Effects. Select one of the effects and then click OK to apply the effect and close the dialog box.
If you want to choose which parts of the picture to apply the effect to, double-click the picture and then click the Select Area button in the toolbar and use the mouse to outline the area you want to apply the effect to. With this feature you can warp, animate, apply shadows and more to your pictures.
72 Headers and footers
You can add a header and footer to a single slide or to your entire slide show with just a few clicks of the mouse. You can also specify the position of the information on the slide (left, center, or right), and the color of the text.
In the slide layer of your slide show (it doesn’t matter what slide you’re on), click Tools > Macro > Play.
Select Headfoot.wcm, then click Play.
Click Header or Footer, then click OK.
Specify the information you want. Select User input if you want to type your own information.
Select Minimize Presentations during execution.
Click Apply to add the header/footer to the current slide you are on, or click
Apply to All to add the header/footer to your entire slide show. Headers and footers will display when the slides are printed.
73 Recording and saving sounds for a slide show
If you have an internal or external sound card that supports digital audio and a microphone, you can record and save your voice, or any other sound, and add it to your slides. For more information about recording and saving sounds, see the online Help for the Microsoft Sound Recorder.
To record a sound file
Click the Format > Slide Properties > Sound.
Click the Record button.
Click the Stop button when you finish recording.
To save a recorded sound
Follow steps 1 to 3 from the previous procedure.
Click File > Save.
Choose the drive and the directory where you want to save the sound from the Save In list box.
Double-click the folder in which you want to save the sound.
Type the filename in the File Name box.
Click Save.
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