After selecting the type of project and gallery background to start with, you are taken to the Corel Presentations Window. A slide layout will automatically be displayed there, with placeholders for elements in that slide (like titles and bullets). The placeholders appear in dotted areas. Although it is a matter of taste whether you create your slides in this mode or in the outline mode, you will probably find it faster to just focus on entering text and ideas first, and then going back and cleaning up the appearance of the slides.

The Corel Presentations window is similar to the WordPerfect 8.0 window. Like WordPerfect, it has, from top to bottom, a title bar, a menu bar, a Toolbar, and a Property Bar displaying above the main document window. The buttons and menu items are different from those in the WP program. You will be using many of these buttons throughout this lesson series.

Something different not found on the WP display is the "View Tabs" at the right of the screen. If you put your mouse pointer on a Tab, a QuickTip appears giving you the Tab name and function. The four "View Tabs" are particularly important to the beginner.

Slide Editor View Slide Outliner View Slide Sorter View QuickPlay

The view currently selected is the "Slide Editor". To change from one view to another, simply click once on the View Tab you want to use. To enter your text ideas in an outline screen, select "Outliner" from the View Tabs on the right side of the display.

The Slide Outliner View lets you enter text for slide titles, subtitles, and bulleted points or text items for those slides. The Outliner View looks something like a sheet of ruled notebook paper. The number at the left of the display shows the slide number.

These are the keystrokes to use as you work in outline view:

Normally every slide will have a title. After typing the title, press <Enter> to go to the subtitle line. Press <Enter> after typing a subtitle or leave the line blank. In a bullet chart slide, pressing <Enter> after the subtitle takes you to the bulleted list. After typing one bulleted item, pressing <Enter> takes you to the next line, for another bulleted item. If you are through with bulleted items for that slide, use the <Backspace> key so the insertion point is on the last bulleted line and press <Ctrl>+<Enter> to get a new slide in the outline.

Exercise 2

Using the same display from Exercise 1, put your mouse pointer on each of the four "View Tabs" at the left of the screen to see the QuickTips. Select the Tab for Outliner View. The display will look like lined paper. Your insertion point is on the line for Slide 1.

Using the outliner keystrokes referenced above, type in this text for a talk about newsletter tips. Except for Slide 1, leave the subtitle lines empty by pressing <Enter> on those lines.

1. Newsletter Tips

subtitle: Building Blocks for a Newsletter

2. Introduction

• Grids
• Nameplates
• Reader cues
• Visuals
• Graphic accents

3. What is a grid?

• Structure of invisible lines guiding placement of text, headings, and graphics
• Not necessarily the number of columns used
• Gives page-to-page consistency but allows variation

4. The nameplate

• Provides visual identification
• Use short titles and short words

5. Reader cues highlight information

• Provide visual relief
• Move the reader through the newsletter
• Examples are

• Headings and subheadings
• Tables of content
• Pull quotes
• Repetitive features
• Continuation lines

6. Visuals add page interest

• Help set tone of publication
• Should have "story-telling" power

7. Graphic accents break up "gray pages"

• Lines, boxes, shading, watermarks, symbols, logos, and oversized letters and numbers add interest to pages.

8. Summary

• Examine your newsletter for grids, nameplate appeal, reader cues, effective visuals, and graphic accents.

One of the slides (Slide 5) has two levels in the outline under the title. You can have up to six levels in an outline, although six levels of detail may not fit on the slide well.

Learning Corel Presentations 8.0