Publish a Presentation

After completing this topic, you will be able to publish content for a PowerPoint presentation.

Steps:

1. Notice the instructor note for the Using Print Preview topic.

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2. Close the Properties toolpane.

    

   Click the Close button.

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3. The Concept pane above shows the topic concept links to a graphic file. The Introduction pane below shows a glossary link in the introduction text.

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4. Select the Document Basics module.

    

   Click the Document Basics list item.

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5. Publish the Document Basics module for a PowerPoint presentation.

    

   Click the File menu.

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6. Click the Publish command.

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7. Accept the current publishing destination.

    

   Click the Next > button.

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8. Publish the selected module only.

    

   Click the Publish selection only option.

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9. Click the Next > button.

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10. Click the Next > button to publish local content.

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11. Replace the old content.

     

    Click the Continue button.

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12. Publish a Presentation.

     

    Click the Presentation option.

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13. Publish the presentation with the default options.

     

    Click the Publish button.

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14. Open the published content folder.

     

    Click the Your content was published to the following location: link.

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15. Publishing created PowerPoint files (.pptx) for each topic and a play.exe file. You can open a topic in PowerPoint from the publishing folder.

     

    Double-click the Using Print Preview.pptx list item.

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16. The topic opens in PowerPoint. Notice the instructor note in the Notes pane.

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17. The topic links to a concept. Concept links appear on the title page. Open the hyperlink.

     

    Right-click the Concept link.

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18. Click the Open Hyperlink command.

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19. The linked concept is a graphic in a web page, which opens in a browser window. Close the browser window.

     

    Click the Close button.

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20. View the second slide.

     

    Click slide 2.

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21. Notice that the published content contains a hyperlink in the introduction.

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22. Click slide 4.

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23. This frame contains a frame link, which was included in publishing. The icon links to the attachment.

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24. Close the PowerPoint application.

     

    Click the Close button.

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25. Launch the play.exe file.

     

    Double-click the play.exe list item.

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26. The index page opens showing a table of contents with links to all of the published content. You can use this page to check the output or run demos.

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27. View the concept for the Printing a Document topic.

     

    Click the Concept link.

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28. The concept opens in a browser window. Close the browser tab.

     

    Click the Close button on the tab.

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29. Launch the Using Print Preview topic.

     

    Click the Using Print Preview link.

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30. Click the Open option.

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31. Start the slide show for the topic.

     

    Click the Slide Show tab.

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32. Click the From Beginning button.

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33. The topic slide show opens in a browser window. You can run the slideshow in the window or run it full screen.

     

    If you run the slide show in the browser window, clicking the mouse advances to the next slide. You can also advance and reverse navigation through the slide show using the Page Down and Page Up keys or by right-clicking in the slide and using the commands on the context menu.

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34. View the context menu for the slide show running in the browser window.

     

    Right-click in the slide.

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35. The PowerPoint context menu provides navigation commands, including the ability to jump to other slides; the option to view speaker notes from the Screen menu; the ability to change pointer options such as type of pointer and ink color; and the option to end the show.

     

    Note: You can also jump to a specific slide by typing the slide number and pressing Enter.

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36. When you move the mouse pointer in the PowerPoint slide show, the Slide Show toolbar appears in the bottom, left corner of the screen.

     

    Use the arrow icons to move forward and backwards through the slide show, the Pointer icon to change pointer options, and the Menu icon to show the slide show menu.

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37. View the concept in full screen mode.

     

    Click the Concept link.

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38. The concept opens in a browser window on top of the full screen slide show. You can close the window to return to the slide show.

     

    Click the Close button.

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39. Click anywhere in the slide to advance to the next slide.

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40. The Glossary link appears in the slide show.

     

    Click the document link.

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41. The glossary definition opens in a browser window. Close the window.

     

    Click the Close button.

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42. Click anywhere in the slide to advance to the next slide.

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43. Since we did not omit action areas, the screenshot shows a marquee around the File menu.

     

    The first step appears to the right.

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44. Click anywhere in the slide to advance to the next slide.

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45. The topic includes a frame link. View the link.

     

    Click the frame link icon.

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46. The linked web page opens in a browser window. Close the window.

     

    Click the Close button.

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47. Click to advance to the next slide.

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48. Click to advance to the next slide.

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49. To save time, we have advanced to the end of the procedure for you.

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50. An End of Procedure appears at the last step in the path.

     

    Click to advance to the next slide.

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51. The presentation ends. You can click or press Escape to exit full screen mode.

     

    Click anywhere in the window to exit full screen mode.

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52. The full screen mode closes and the PowerPoint window appears. Close the PowerPoint window.

     

    Click the Close button.

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After completing this topic, you are able to publish content for a PowerPoint presentation.

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