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• Start with a pre-designed template and then customize this with your own text, photos
and color scheme.
• Create a presentation from scratch, bringing in all the required elements, text, graphics
and photos onto the page and ordering the content into the presentation steps and
pages you require.
• Convert an existing website/web document into a presentation.

Creating a presentation from templates
Open the ONLINE CONTENT CATALOG - "FILE" > "NEW FROM ONLINE CONTENT

CATALOG".
Find the PRESENTATIONS folder in the catalog and double click to expand it.

The theme folders contain collections of presentation designs and associated graphic
files that each follow a specific theme. Browse through the various theme folders until
you find a design you like and double click on the first thumbnail, named 'Presentation'.
A new presentation document opens displaying all the template pages, already
populated with several pages, each containing a number of presentation steps that
already have content. A number of transitions have already been applied to the pages
and the steps.
Click PREVIEW WHOLE WEBSITE to open a preview window - then click on one of
the browser icons in the top right of the window to launch an external browser.
You need to preview your presentations in a separate web browser to see the
transition animations perform well. You can then use the arrows in the top left of
the presentation (or on your keyboard) to see the steps and transitions in action.
Also try moving the mouse pointer to the lower left corner of the Presentation
preview windows to see the pop-up navigation controls
Close the preview.

Customize the text and photos using your own content, just as when editing a website
document.
Creating your own presentation from scratch

This section describes the best workflow for creating a presentation page by taking you
through an example, to help you get started quickly.

Choose "NEW" > "PRESENTATION (WIDESCREEN)" or "NEW" > "PRESENTATION (4:3
NORMAL)" from the FILE menu depending on whether you want a widescreen (16:10)
presentation, or a normal (4:3) presentation.

Note: 16x10 is a better compromise for some wide-screen monitors and tablets that are
not exactly 16:9, and it’s not so squashed. But you can create any aspect ratio you
require of course.