The Menu and Toolbar Items

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# Chapter 6. The Menu and Toolbar Items

KPresenter presents different types of interfaces for you to interact with the program. Perhaps the most familiar type of interface is the menu which appears on the top of the KPresenter window.

Clicking on the menu items gives you a list of commands from which you can choose the one you want. Many of the commands can also be accessed directly by holding down Ctrl or Alt and pressing another key on your keyboard. In the next section, each of the menu commands is described in brief.

In addition to the menus, KPresenter also has a set of toolbars. Each toolbar consists of a collection of mini-icons. A toolbar icon often presents a convenient shortcut to a command that is found in one of the menus.

Each toolbar has a thin stippled area, which acts as a handle for that toolbar. The stippled area is shown highlighted in red in the screenshot below:

Clicking on the toolbar handle results in that toolbar being "flattened" so that you have some extra space for viewing the main editing window:

Clicking on the toolbar handle a second time brings the toolbar back. You can also move the toolbar around by dragging the handle. Toolbars can be "docked" or attached to any side of the KPresenter window. If you like, you can also have the toolbar "float" in its own window, separated from the main KPresenter window as shown in the screenshot below:

If you don't like dragging toolbars around, right-click on the handle and a menu pops up as shown in the screenshot below:

The first few items in the pop-up menu have to do with the placement of the toolbar. You can choose any of the four sides of the KPresenter window, or have the toolbar "float" in a separate window. Choosing "Flat" hides the toolbar. (If you right-click on the handle of a hidden toolbar, this item appears as "Unflat" instead.)

Choosing the last item in the menu, "Mode", leads to an additional menu which lets you control the appearance of the items in toolbar. This additional cascading menu is shown in the screenshot below:

The default view of the toolbar is icons only. In this view, if you don't know what a particular icon means, you can hold the mouse over the icon, and after a second or so, a little hint pops up in a highlighted text box as shown in the screenshot below:

You can choose to display the toolbar items as text instead of icons, or even to combine both icons and text. If you want both text and icons, the cascading menu allows you to select whether the text appears beside the icons or below them. All four styles of displaying toolbar items are shown in the screenshot below:

# 6.1. The KPresenter Menus

## 6.1.1. File Menu

File->New (Ctrl-N)

File->Open (Ctrl-O)

File->Save (Ctrl-S)

File->Save As...

File->Print... (Ctrl-P)

File->Close (Ctrl-W)

File->Quit (Ctrl-Q)

## 6.1.2. Edit Menu

Edit->Undo (Alt-Z)

Edit->Redo

Edit->Cut (Ctrl-X)

Edit->Copy (Ctrl-C)

Edit->Paste (Ctrl-V)

Edit->Delete (Ctrl-Del)

Edit->Select All (Alt-A)

Edit->Copy Page To Clipboard

Edit->Delete Page...

Edit->Find... (Ctrl-F)

Edit->Replace... (Ctrl-R)

Edit->Header/Footer...

## 6.1.3. View Menu

View->New View...

## 6.1.4. Insert Menu

Insert->Page... (F2)

Insert->Picture... (F3)

Insert->Clipart... (F4)

## 6.1.5. Tools Menu

Tools->Mouse (F5)

Tools->Line (F6)

Tools->Rectangle (F7)

Tools->Circle/Ellipse (F8)

Tools->Pie/Arc/Chord (F9)

Tools->Text (F10)

Tools->Autoform (F11)

Tools->Diagram (F12)

Tools->Table (Ctrl-F1)

Tools->Object (Ctrl-F2)

## 6.1.6. Text Menu

Text->Font...

Text->Color...

Text+Align->Align Left (Alt-L)

Text+Align->Align Center (Alt-C)

Text+Align->Align Right (Alt-R)

Text+Type->Enumerated List

Text+Type->Unsorted List

Text+Type->Normal Text

Text->Increase Depth (Ctrl-+)

Text->Decrease Depth (Ctrl--)

Text->Spacing...

Text->Extend Contents To Object Height

Text->Extend Object To Fit Contents

Text->Insert Page #

## 6.1.7. Extra Menu

Extra->Pen And Brush...

Extra->Configure Pie/Arc/Chord...

Extra->Configure Rectangle...

Extra->Lower Objects (Ctrl-L)

Extra->Raise Objects (Ctrl-R)

Extra->Rotate Objects

Extra->Shadow Objects

Extra->Group Objects

Extra->Ungroup Objects

Extra+Align Objects->Align Left

Extra+Align Objects->Align Center (Horizontally)

Extra+Align Objects->Align Right

Extra+Align Objects->Align Top

Extra+Align Objects->Align Center (Vertically)

Extra+Align Objects->Align Bottom

Extra->Page Background...

Extra->Page Layout...

Extra->Create Web-Presentation (HTML Slideshow)...

Extra->Create Template From Current Slide...

Extra->Options...

## 6.1.8. Screen Presentations Menu

Screen Presentations->Configure Pages...

Screen Presentations->Assign Effect...

Screen Presentations->Start

Screen Presentations->Go To Start (Home)

Screen Presentations->Previous Step (PgUp)

Screen Presentations->Next Step (PgDn)

Screen Presentations->Go To End (End)

Screen Presentations->Pen Color...

Screen Presentations+Pen Width->#

Screen Presentations->Open Presentationstructure Editor

## 6.1.9. Help Menu

Help->About...

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