3.3. Building Presentations 3.3.3. Adding Slides to your (Web design conference)
3.3. Building Presentations 3.3.3. Adding Slides to your Presentation Choose Insert ..Slide from the menu to add a new slide: the familiar slide type window appears (see Figure 11.13, Selecting a Slide Template [124]). Proceed as explained before. Choose Insert . Duplicate Slide instead if you want to base your new slide’s content on the current one. 3.3.4. Simple Graphics It is often useful to build simple diagrams to explain or show a concept. After all a picture does speak a thousand words. Table 11.2, Graphics Tools [125] summarizes the available tools to build simple graphics. Table 11.2. Graphics Tools Function Button Draws rectangles and squares, either filled or unfilled, with sharp or rounded edges. Draws ellipses and circles, either filled or unfilled; elliptical and circular pies, segments and arcs. Draws 3D objects such as cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, pyramids, torus, shells, or half-spheres. Draws curves, polygons, and free-form lines, either filled or unfilled. Draws lines and arrows. Lines can have arrows at either end or at both. Draws connectors . Connectors are lines, either straight or curved, with or without arrows at either end which link objects with each other. Right click on the drawn object and access the menu to change attributes such as color, shadowing, transparency, etc. 3.3.5. Simple Charts Choose Insert ..Chart from the menu to insert a chart diagram into the current slide. A default bar chart will be inserted, drag the border handles to adjust its size.