Page 523 - Xara Designer Pro X17

Web Graphics and Websites 523

When you delete an object and it's the only object in a step, Designer Pro will
automatically delete the empty step but only after a Save or a Preview operation. This
allows the addition of new objects to a step without disturbing the existing step order.

After a Save or Preview operation, empty steps will be deleted and the remaining steps
re-numbered accordingly.

Deleting a step
Select an object in the step and click the DELETE STEP button in the
Presentation toolbar or right-click and choose PRESENTATION > DELETE STEP.

Alternatively in the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY right click the layer and choose DELETE LAYER.
Adding new presentation pages

Right click the Xara Designer Pro X pasteboard and choose NEW PAGE to add a new
blank page or DUPLICATE CURRENT PAGE to add a copy of the currently selected page.

Creating Number and Bullet lists
When you add bulleted or numbered lists to a presentation, each item on the list is
automatically made into a separate presentation step when you export your presentation.
This makes it much easier to create and edit animated list items. To add new list items
just hit return at the end of one of the existing items. The transition effect used for each
bullet point during the presentation is that set for the presentation layer on which the list
resides (you cannot set different effects for different points in the same list).

To turn the feature off, right click in the text area while the TEXT TOOl is selected, choose
PRESENTATION > PRESENT BY PARAGRAPH from the menu and deselect the option. Now
when you export/preview your presentation the list is no longer split into separate steps.

To find out more about creating bulleted and numbered lists see Text Handling >
Applying text appearances (on page 209)

Deleting presentation pages
Right click the page and choose DELETE PAGE. Or select the pages you want to delete in
the PAGE & LAYER GALLERY and hit Delete, to delete multiple pages at once.

Linking to next/previous step

You can easily add buttons/objects to a presentation page that reveal the next step in the
page. Just add or create your button, and use the LINK TO list in the Link tab (on page
465) of the Web Properties dialog to apply a link to the button/object that will display the
next presentation step.