Slide Show Directions using ClarisWorks

Quick Directions for making a simple slide show using Claris

• Open up either Draw or Word Processing
• Go to View (Window) and select Page view-this will give you the gray borders
• Go to Format-Document and set all margins to 0 in. In the size box-change pages down to the number of pages in your slide show.
• Go to File-Page set up and choose horizontal orientation (the man laying sideways)
• Go to the bottom left corner of the window and change the size to 50%.
• If you want a master slide for your background go to Options-Edit Master Page and make your master. When you're finished go back into Options-Edit Master Page and deselect it. After doing this, your changes should be shown on all your pages.
• You can put anything you want on your page. Text, Clip Art, scanned pictures etc.
• When you want to add text you go to the Text tool and create a text frame and then enter your text. You can change color, size, style and fonts before you type your text or afterwards.
• If you want clip art you can go to File-Library and choose a category that you like. A clip art window will open up and you can choose View-by object to see all the pictures in that category. You can drag your clip art to wherever you want on your screen.
• You can also bring in clip art from a disk. Put your disk in the drive and go to File-Insert. Locate your art that you want and then say open (insert).
• Don't forget that you can alter your graphics by going to Arrange. In that menu you can rotate, free rotate, scale, flip, align, move to back etc.
• When you're ready for your show, go to View (window) and choose Slide show. Set the options that you want (fade, loop, advance automatically) and then choose background and border colors. Press start and your show will begin.
• You can advance from slide to slide by pressing either the spacebar or clicking once on your mouse.
• When finished you can press either Q or ESC and it will take you out of slide show mode.
• If you decide that you don't like the order of your slides, go to View (window)-choose slide show and then in the left corner of the dialogue window just drag your slides to the order that you want them to be in.
• You can use your slide show on a stand alone computer, print overhead transparencies, connect your computer to a television or other monitor, or make a video tape of the show. Connecting to a television and making a video tape requires a port on the back of the computer for taking the information out. (video out). Older computers also need a little box called a scan converter to send an image from your computer to a tv.
• ENJOY!!!

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