What Are Auto and Manual Modes in Present?

Auto Mode and Manual Mode determine the types of changes that you can make while designing the presentation flow in Present.

See What Is a Presentation Flow?

The first time that you open a workbook's presentation flow in Present, by default the presentation flow's properties and settings match those of the workbook design in Visualize. It's important to remember that the changes you make in Auto Mode or Manual Mode aren't applied to the workbook or canvas in Visualize.

Auto Mode is enabled the first time you open a workbook's presentation flow. You can switch to Manual Mode, which provides additional Present options.

Present Option	Available in Auto Mode?	Available in Manual Mode?
Change canvas order	No	Yes
Delete a canvas	No	Yes
Duplicate a canvas	No	Yes
Hide a canvas	Yes	Yes
Rename canvas	No	Yes

When you work in Manual Mode, the Visualize and Present workbook and canvases can become out of synch. For example, you add a canvas to the workbook in Visualize, and when working in Manual Mode in Present the added canvas is automatically set to hidden. See Manual Mode and How Canvases Synch and Reset a Canvas in Present.

What happens when you switch modes?

Switching from Manual Mode to Auto Mode resets any of the manual changes listed above to match the workbook settings in Visualize. Switching from Manual Mode to Auto Mode preserves all other workbook or canvas-level properties that you set in Present.

Switching from Auto Mode to Manual Mode allows you to make the additional changes listed above. Any of these changes that you make differ from the workbook settings in Visualize.