The slide editor

The editor opens on one slide, with the rest of the deck along the bottom. Layers are on the left, the slide is in the middle, and what you have selected is on the right. Your changes to every slide are kept until Save, so you can move between slides and come back to them. A slide of its own opens alone, with no strip and no duration.

What goes on a slide

• Text. Double-click it, or select it and press Enter, to type. Its box decides where the lines break, and the wall breaks them in the same places. Auto sizing makes the words as large as the box allows.
• Pictures. Drop one on the slide, paste one, or use Add image. A picture can cover its box or fit inside it, have rounded corners, and be flipped.
• Shapes. Rectangles, ellipses, triangles, stars, lines and arrows, with a solid, dashed or dotted outline.
• Drawings. Pick the pen, choose its colour and width beside it, and draw.

Text that reads from the back

The typeface you pick is the one the wall shows, on every computer. Text can have an outline and a shadow, for words over a busy picture, and a case, so it can be set in capitals without typing it again.

Background fills the text’s whole box. Line fill puts a bar behind each line instead, as wide as the line, the longest line or the box, and it works as it does in a theme.

Timers in text

Select a text and write its words in Text on the right. Insert token there puts one of this computer’s timers into them, and on the wall it counts as it does under Timers: “Starts in 4:59”. The deck remembers the timer by its name, and this computer remembers which of its timers that is, so another computer asks once which of its own to show, see timers on another computer. In the Library in a browser, which has no timers, New variable names one for the computer to pick.

The editor shows each timer as it reads now. On the wall, text with a timer draws above the slide’s other elements. Its size is set for the widest the timer can read, so a countdown does not jump when 10:00 becomes 9:59.

Behind the elements

The slide’s own settings lead the left side, above the layers: its duration, notes and background. The background is a colour, black until you pick one, or Transparent, which leaves nothing behind the elements, what a slide shown as an overlay needs. A picture behind everything is a picture element: send it to the back and lock it.

Laying out

Drag to move, and use the handles to resize and rotate. Shift keeps the proportions while resizing and holds a drag to one direction. Dragging with Option held leaves a copy behind.

Arrange, on the right-click menu, lines elements up: one element with the slide, several with each other. Three or more can be spaced evenly.

Select several elements and the right side edits all of them at once.

Layers lists everything from front to back. Drag a row to restack, hide an element, or lock it so that it cannot be moved or deleted by accident.

Copying between decks

Copied elements paste into another deck, another window, or the library in a browser. Pasting ordinary text makes a text element of it.

Keyboard

The keyboard button on the bar under the slide lists every shortcut. On Windows, Ctrl stands in for ⌘ and Alt for Option. The ones used most:

Keys	Does
V, P, T	Select, pen, add text
Enter	Edit the selected text
Esc	Deselect
⌘Z, ⌘⇧Z	Undo, redo
⌘D	Duplicate
⌘⇧V	Paste in place
Arrows	Nudge, 10 px with Shift
⌘ and scroll	Zoom around the pointer
Space and drag	Move around the slide
PgUp, PgDn	Previous or next slide