Well, now you have a real presentation.  Make sure you are on Slide # 1.  Go to Slide # 1 either in Slide Sorter View, Normal View, or Slide View.  If you would like to view how your show looks, either go to the Menu Bar at the top and click-on Slide Show, then click on View Show, or you can just click on the Slide Show button at the bottom of the screen.  Then, to advance, either tap the left mouse button, Space Bar or Enter key.  If you desire to end the show, either tap the Esc key, in the upper left portion of the keyboard, or click the right mouse button and then click-on End Show.

If you want your entire slide to have a picture as its Background, this is what the last tab is for.  You need to click-on Select Picture.  This will take you to the Windows “Open File” and then you can select a picture you have saved.  The FrontPage 2000 tutorial goes into this in great detail. When you have the picture you like, click-on OK and then click-on Apply.

Also, note the tabs at the top.  Click-on Texture and Pattern and observe the effects.  In Texture you use the “elevator bar” to the right of the textures to see all the selections.  You then click-on the Texture of your choice.  In Patterns, you simply click-on the Pattern of your choice.

Click-on several of the Shading Styles (Horizontal, Vertical, etc.) and observe the effects in the lower right in the Variants and Sample areas.  Notice that there are four choices in the Variants area.  As you click-on each of the individual “squares” the choice will appear in the Sample area. If you click on OK at any time, the Background you see in the Sample will be the background on the slide.  You will return to the Background Menu screen when you click-on OK. You will see a miniature version of what your slide will look like in the lower right corner of the Background menu screen. 

Now click-on Format in the Menu Bar again.  Next, click-on Background.


The following Menu Screen will appear.  Click-on the small triangle in the bottom portion of this screen. Now click-on Fill Effects.

Notice, in the Fill Effects Screen Menu below, that there are a number of choices (tabs at the top) – Gradient, Texture, Pattern and Picture.

 

Slide Color Schemes

There are a number of different methods you can use to add color.  First we’ll use some basic methods and then try some “exotic” effects. 
First go to Slide Sorter View and then click-on Slide 1.  By being in Slide Sorter View you’ll be able to see the different color effects in several slides at the same time.

Be Careful with Sound

This simply reminds you not to forget sounds for Transitions and Builds can enhance your presentation.  Be careful, sometimes too many effects can overwhelm and detract from a presentation. As you become more experienced with sounds and web pages you will find web pages devoted to sounds and clip art.  In the Front Page 98 and 2000 tutorials there is a section on WAV sounds.  If you desire a copy of either of these tutorials, simply e-mail the addresses at the end of this tutorial.  You may want to experiment with some other sounds you “download and save” form the internet.

Don’t forget to keep saving your presentation often as you enhance it with these effects.

Building is a term indicating how each line of the text, on a slide, will enter the screen.  The lines, words, letters, pictures and charts can fly in from almost any direction.  To Build the text on each slide, follow these directions.

Now we’ll add some pizzazz to our presentation.  When you viewed your slide show a few moments ago it was simply like “flopping down” plastic transparencies on an overhead projector. Nothing really fantastic.  Now we’ll add some motion, animation, sound, and color and really make our presentation something to view.

You have just completed the first stage of your presentation.  Go back to Slide 1.  You can do this by using the “elevator bar” on the right edge of your screen.  If you click at the top of the elevator bar you will keep moving up, from Slide 8 until you come to your first slide.  It will indicate Slide 1 of 8 in the status area in the lower left corner of your screen.  You should recognize this slide as your first slide on how to make a PBJ.