More Exercises and Questions

10. What is the difference between selecting Slides in the "Print" dialog box and selecting Handouts?

11. If you print your slides as overheads and then have to change two slides, how do you print just those two changed slides?

12. In the "Print" dialog box, why would you select to not print the background in a slide set?

13. Give some examples of why you would want to use the [Text Object Tools] button on the Toolbar.

14. How do you change the font color on the title of a slide on just one slide? How do you change the font color on the title of a slide for all of the bulleted slides?

15. How many layers does a slide have? How do you change from layer to layer?

16. How could you add your organization logo to all slides in a slide set?

17. What is the purpose of a slide transition? How do you apply a transition effect to all of your slides?

18. Why would you consider applying a transition to bulleted text in your slide set? When would this feature not be useful?

19. Go back to the good copy of "newsletter tips" and save it as "practice file." Use this practice file and get to the Slide Editor View. Select the background layer and add a small text box in the lower left corner that gives your organizational affiliation. (You will have to use the [Text Object Tools] button on the Toolbar to create this text box.)

20. Using this same "practice file," bring up the Layout Layer on one of your bulleted chart slides. Select the bullet area and make the font slightly smaller. Check out several slides to see the effect.

21. Using the "practice file," get in Slide Editor View, and select the bullet area on one of your slides. Use FORMAT, Object Properties, Object Animation to bring up the "Bulleted List Properties." Apply a transition to all of your bullets and select the box "Highlight current bullet" at the bottom right of the dialog box. Click [OK] to close the dialog box and play your slide show, for a few slides at least.

22. If you have created your own slide set, print handouts for your file.

23. Do some more exploring of the additional backgrounds under Background Gallery, when you are working with the Background Layer. You will have to apply a new background to get an accurate sense of its effect. If you do not like the background, just do not save the file.

24. This exercise will only work if you have multimedia/sound card capability. If you want to try, the worst thing that will happen is you will get error messages when you try to play a sound. You can apply sound on your machine, even if you cannot hear it, and take the file to another machine which does have sound capability and play the file there.

Using the "Lesson 3 tips" file or "practice file," get in Slide Editor View and go to Slide 1. Click on FORMAT on the menu bar, then Slide Properties, Sound and select either the WAV box or the MIDI box. Click on the browse icon (like a folder) to tell Windows 95 to look for the sound files. Select a file in the listing and click on [Open] to place the file in the sound window. When you are back in the "Slide Properties" dialog box, with a reference to the sound file, click [Play Sound] to hear it. Click [Stop Sound] to stop the playing of the sound. Click on [OK] to save this sound with that particular slide.

Now, go back and play your slide show from the beginning, and you should hear the music or sound effect. Notice that after the music starts playing, you cannot stop it simply by moving to the next slide. The clip of music will play until it is finished.

Learning Corel Presentations 8.0