Adobe Presenter 6

Change slide properties

You can easily view and change the properties of any slide in a presentation at any time. Slide properties include the title, navigation name, navigation options, and presenter name. The slide properties dialog box also enables you to make changes to a group of slides quickly and easily. For example, suppose you have assigned a presenter to all the slides, but another presenter is providing audio narration for a few of them. To assign the new presenter to those few slides, you can use slide properties.

Note: You can select multiple slides and easily update their Presenter and Advance By User settings. Simply select a slide, hold down Shift or Control, and select additional slides. (You can’t change the Navigation name, Go To Slide, or Video properties of more than one slide at a time.)
Using slide properties, you can change options for individual slides or a group of slides.

A.
Select one slide or multiple slides in the list.

B.
Click to edit the selected slides

View slide properties for all slides

You can view a short description of all slides in a presentation in one central location. For example, you can see which presenters are associated with each slide, whether navigation names have been assigned, and whether the user must advance any slides.

  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Slide Properties.

    The Slide Properties dialog box appears.

  3. Use the scroll bar on the right side to view all of the slides in the presentation.

Set a navigation name

You can set a navigation name for a slide that is different from the slide title. A clear and descriptive navigation name can help users navigate through the published presentation. The navigation name appears in the sidebar (Outline and Thumb panes) in the published presentation.

A navigation name can be useful if your slide titles are long or if you want to display a more descriptive name than the slide title in the final presentation for users. For example, the first slide in the presentation may have the title “Introduction,” but you can assign a navigation name such as “About Product X.”

  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Slide Properties.
  3. Select a slide and click Edit or double-click a slide.
  4. In the Navigation Name text box, enter the text you want to use.
  5. Click OK twice.

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Slide titles (left) changed to navigation names (right)

Set Go To Slide options

Presentations usually progress linearly through the slides, but you can change the order by using the Go To Slide option. This option lets you skip slides in the presentation without having to remove them.

The Go To Slide option can be useful if you are creating a presentation for several audiences. For example, you can create one benefits presentation for both full-time and part-time employees. Part-time employees can skip slides pertaining only to full-time employees. The Go To Slide option works the same whether the presentation is used within Acrobat Connect Professional or viewed locally in a web browser.
Note: If you are going to use a presentation as a Connect Training course, it is better to not use the Go To Slide option.
  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Slide Properties.
  3. Select a slide as the starting point and click Edit or double-click a slide.
  4. In the Go To Slide pop‑up menu, select the slide to which you want the presentation to jump.
  5. Click OK twice to close all dialog boxes.

Add speaker video

You can include video files in a presentation, which appear in the viewer sidebar. This can be especially useful if you have a video of a speaker, sometimes called a “talking head” video. Presenter supports the Flash (SWF) and Flash Video (FLV) file formats. Video added to a presentation appears in the location used for presenter photographs.

Note: Video is added to each slide individually. If you use one “talking head” video file for multiple slides, split the video into separate files.
Video files appear in the viewer in the same location as the presenter photograph.

  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Slide Properties.
  3. Select a slide and click Edit or double-click a slide.
  4. Next to the Video text box, click Browse.
  5. Navigate to a SWF or FLV file, select the file, and click Open.
  6. Click OK twice to close all dialog boxes.
  7. To test the file, preview the presentation. (For more information, see Preview a presentation).

Set slide advance behavior

By default, slides in a presentation advance automatically. You can, however, set individual slides to advance only when users click the Next button. This is useful, for example, for a slide containing an interactive Adobe Captivate simulation that has no set play duration.

  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT file).
  2. From the Adobe Presenter menu, select Slide Properties.
  3. Select a slide and click Edit or double-click a slide.
  4. Select Advance By User.
  5. Click OK twice.