Send e-mail Download Zipped Tutorial To my mind, the height of the default presentation page is too deep. So we will change that. Right click on the page and select Page Options. In the Page Size  tabbed section, select Custom and change the page Height to 788px. Check All Pages...Same Size. Press Apply then OK to close the dialog. This will be our basic presentation page. For this tutorial I will scale everything down to 600 pixels to fit my layout Drag and drop the Medium-Dark Yellow color from the screen palette and onto the page. This will be our page background color. Next we will add a Heading graphic. Open the Designs Gallery > Presentations > Presentations Components > Headings folder, drag and drop Heading 8 onto the page. The Designs Gallery is now docked on the right side of the window. Highlight the text with the Text Tool (T) and change the title to read My XaraPoint Presentation: Change the font to Trebuchet MS, Regular. From the Designs Gallery > Presentations > Presentations Components > List Items folder, drag and drop Bulleted List 2 onto the page. Click Match when the Match Color dialog appears. The Match colors dialog appears because we have one item containing “theme colors”, the header and this matches the colors to the theme colors in the header. The dark text is hard read on the medium green background. Select just the text by dragging the Text Tool across the text. Change the text  color to white and the font to Trebuchet MS Bold. Drag the list item towards the top of the page. As you get close to the center of the page, the marvelous new “Magic Snap” guideline will appear and will help you to position the text to the center of the page. Drag and drop the Previous-Next02 arrow buttons from the Presentation Components > Transition Controls onto the page and Match Colors. Add some small text under the arrows, PRESS RIGHT ARROW. Drag and drop Dark Yellow onto the pasteboard (the area off the page). We are ready to build our presentation. NOTE: If you are creating a hosted presentation (see Page 5), in which you will be doing the navigation remotely for your visitors, you can skip the PRESS RIGHT ARROW text because your visitors will not be able to navigate your pages. Without this text, your visitors will only see a blank page. But for self guided presentations, in which your visitors will navigate the presentation on their own, then it is a good idea to add this text so that they know what to do when they land on a blank page. In this Workbook, your editor will walk you through the steps required to create an impressive presentation. It is easy (honest). And the best part, the talented folks at Xara have done all the hard work for you. All you have to do is drag a few pre-designed presentation objects onto the page, edit some text, add a few photos or charts, and publish. That’s all there is to it. And if this is too hard, then relax, Xara’s designers have created a bunch of really handsome presentation templates that you can use off the peg as it were to create a professional looking presentation. There is a new addition in the File > New menu, 955 pix Presentation. This is a new environment created especially for presentation. And a lot of the new presentation features, such as Steps, only work in this environment. So the first thing we need to do is to create a New Presentation. From the File menu, select New > 955 pix Presentation.