After you have created a new Presentation (File > New > 955 pix Presentation), select a header from the Headings folder. Unless you want it to say, 00 Page Title, just edit the text with the Text Tool. It will even check your spelling as you type (in 13 languages including UK and US English, and Austrian, German and Swiss German). Next, drag and drop a bullet point from the List Items folder onto the screen. Edit the text as desired. Select your first list item and press Duplicate Step. The first duplicate may not be where you want it. Just drag and use the Magic Snap alignment guides to move the second point under the first. The next time you duplicate a step, the next line of type will be automatically  placed in the correct position with correct spacing. If you do presentations, you are going to flip over the new Presentations capabilities in Web Designer 7 Premium. Eat your heart out Microsoft PowerPoint! I am calling this new capability, XaraPoint Presentations. Now you do everything in one familiar program. Everything you need to create impressive presentations has already been created and all the action is built in. In the Designs Gallery as you can see on the example to the right, you have a full complement of components for creating your own custom presentation such as Arrows, List Items, Photo Transitions, etc. If you are less adventurous, you can select from a large group of pre-designed theme templates (these components and templates will automatically be updated as new designs and components become available). If you would rather craft your own presentations from scratch, you can easily do that as well. There is a new setting in the File > New menu: 955 pix Presentation. The size is not important because you can change the page size to fit your needs. What is important is a whole new environment for creating presentations that you can present on your computer, on your website, or hosted and open by invitation only (called a Webinars—web based seminar), that you can host on Xara’s secure servers. There is a new tool bar that helps you produce your presentation shown on the right. The first foot print icon creates a new step, the push pin automatically moves a selection to the Mouse Off layer, Duplicate Step is used for things like duplicating a list item or bullet point. As you may have guessed the foot with the X deletes a step, the list lets you reorder a step, and finally the criss crossing X shape lets you add a transition effect. Let’s build a page using the pre-designed components. When you press the “Next Step” arrow (the right triangle) Web Designer 7 Premium advances to the next step layer. The next step can be a photo, a chart, text, even I would think, an animation or video, though I have not tried this yet. And when you have cycled though all the steps on your page, the right arrow transitions to the next page. Each of these steps can have an animated transition effect, or if you are a purest, an instant transition. On the other hand, try to remember, just because you have 10 Step Transition effects and 22 Page Transition effects does not mean that you are obligated to use each and every one. Practice restraint and aim for consistency. OK? Here is a small demo presentation I whipped up to explore some of the new Presentation features. It is four pages long and demonstrates some of the capabilities. There is a link back to this Workbook page on the last page of the presentation. Click here to see my XaraPoint Presentation. Send e-mail Download Zip File