Select the first list item. Press the Duplicate Step icon. The duplicate
line of text will appear somewhere on the page and will not align with
the first list item. Drag the duplicate list item into place and use the
Magic Snap alignment guidelines to place it under the first list item.
Press Duplicate Step again a few times to add more list items. Notice
that after you have positioned the second list item that all duplicated
list items are placed the same distance apart. It’s magical!
Edit your Heading and List Item text. Add more list items if necessary.
Be sure to enable Check Spelling as You Type.
If you look in the Page and Layer Gallery, you will see that there are 9
new layers called Presentation Steps. These are essentially layers but
they work in a slightly different manner. Preview the
page. At first you will see nothing. But each time you
press the right arrow button, a new line of text
slides from the right onto the page (the default).
Right click on any of
the Presentation Steps
and select Layer
Properties. Here you
can select from a list of
Transition Effects and
adjust the speed
(hidden behind the
drop down list). But
remember, just
because you have 10
transition effects, you
are under no obligation
to use all 10. Practice
restraint. OK?
Alternatively, you can select the first
step object (the first list item) and
press the Step Transition Effect icon which also opens the
Layer Properties dialog. I’ll leave the choice up to you.
When you reach the last List Item, the presentation grinds to a halt.
Because you have reached the end of the presentation. (So far we have
just one page in our presentation). If we add more pages, then when
you reach the last List Item, the next arrow click will go to the next
page. So lets add some more pages.
Click the Insert New Page... icon on the Infobar. Select the Heading and
the text under the arrow buttons on Page One and copy them to the
clipboard (Edit > Copy or press Ctrl c). In the Page and Layer Gallery,
select the MouseOff layer.
From the Edit menu select Paste in Place on the new page. In Web
Designer 7 you can also right click on the page and select Paste...
Paste in Place in Current Layer. Select the heading the the PRESS
RIGHT ARROW TEXT and Arrange > Put to Back.
Open the Page and Layers Gallery and look at the layers for our new
page. Ack! All the Step ayers have also been copied. We don’t want
this. So delete all the Step Layers
NOTE: This duplication of Step Layers has been fixed and in the
next update, 7.0.4, but if you do not have the latest update you
will have to manually delete the Step Layers.
Select the first list item from the first page and copy it to the
clipboard. Select the MouseOff layer in the new page and Edit > Paste
in Place in Current Layer. Then click the Make New Step icon.
So here is our second page. Also, before we add some photos, go back
to the Page and Layer Gallery, select the title for the new page
(something like index 2 copy, and give it a proper title. Click the
current title and when it is highlighted you can change the text.
Change the Heading copy to My XaraPoint Presentation: Add Photos.
Open the Designs Gallery. From Presentations > Presentation
Components > Photo Transitions, drag and drop Photo Slide 1 onto the
page. Drag it to the center of the page until the Magic Snap indicates it
is in the center of the page.
Drag and drop new photos onto the sample photos Ctrl click on the text
to select it and change the fill color to white.
The two photos as well as the text are all Steps. You can edit the
Transition Effects if you wish or even rearrange the order of the steps.
Experiment. You can’t break anything. If you mess things up too badly,
just delete the photos and start over with a new Photo Transition.