Using the Slide Manager in Adobe Presenter 7
The Slide Manager allows you to adjust slide properties at any time. When you open the Slide Manager, a thumbnail of each slide in the presentation appears. The slide properties shown with each thumbnail include the Slide Title, Presenter information, Navigation Name, Navigation Options (Go To), Slide Advance behavior, Lock Slide information, and Multimedia information.
The Slide Title (appearing above the slide thumbnail) is automatically picked up from the PowerPoint slide and cannot be changed within Slide Manager. In order to change a slide title, you need to edit the title that appears on the PowerPoint slide.
Entire presentations can be delivered by one presenter or presentations may have different presenters for different slides. The Presented By field can be used to select the particular presenter who will be speaking for particular slides. To change the presenter for individual slides, click the presenter name and select a different presenter from the drop-down menu. If the desires presenter name does not appear in the menu, you will need to add the presenter using the Preferences option from the Application group on the Adobe Presenter tab. The Presenter drop-down can also be used to eliminate a presenter from the slide.
The Navigation Name is used to define the slide and can be 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.
The Navigation Name can really 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 example, the first slide in the presentation may have the title “Introduction,” but you can assign a navigation name such as “About Product X.” Also, you may use the same title on multiple slides where you are displaying a series of bullets. Slide 2, 3 and 4 may all be titled Types, but you would want the navigation name to be different: perhaps Type1, Type2 and Type3.
Go To Slide Option
Presentations usually progress linearly through the slides, but it some cases you may want to jump from slide to slide. If you are creating a non-linear presentation, you can specify which slide the user navigates to from this slide by using the Go To option (this is where the navigation name can be very useful). The Go To 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.
By default, slides in a presentation advance automatically. You can, however, change the Advance by User setting so individual slides 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.
Using the Lock Slide option you can lock a slide for a specified play duration. Locking can help ensure that viewers spend a minimum amount of time on a slide and do not quickly skip ahead. When you lock a slide, navigation controls are disabled along with navigation from the Outline and Thumbs panes. Quiz and question slides cannot be locked. Note: Slides are locked only when viewed for the first time. Subsequent views of the slide are not locked and the navigation controls are not disabled.
Also shown for each slide are Multimedia icons representing audio, video, and Flash. If a slide contains one of these multimedia types, the corresponding icon is displayed in color, otherwise the icon is grayed out. Multimedia can be added through the Insert SWF (Flash) or Capture/Import Video options available on the Adobe Presenter tab.