Delivering a Slide Show in Visio 2007
If you don’t have PowerPoint 2007 or don’t want to use it, you can deliver a slide show in Visio 2007. The Full Screen view in Visio 2007 displays the drawing page alone without the toolbars and menu in a similar fashion to Slide Show view in PowerPoint 2007, as Figure 13-13 and Figure 13-14 show.
Figure 13-14. In Full Screen view, you can display Visio 2007 pages without the menus and toolbars, as you would in a slide show.
You can navigate from one page in the drawing file to the next using the keyboard shortcuts, just as you can display one slide after another in PowerPoint 2007.
Of course, it’s easier to create a presentation using a tool designed specifically for that purpose—PowerPoint 2007 includes many handy features, such as outlines and the slide sorter, that Visio 2007 doesn’t have. However, it’s possible to set up a Visio 2007 file with multiple pages, one for each slide, and deliver it on the screen as you would a PowerPoint 2007 presentation.
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Press F5 to display a drawing page in Full Screen view, and F5 again to return to the normal view.
Follow these steps to create a presentation in Visio 2007:
1. | To set up the pages in the drawing file to look like slides, choose File, Page Setup, and then specify letter-sized, landscape-oriented pages. Click OK. | ||||||||
2. | To design a background for the slides, choose Insert, New Page, and under Page Properties, select Background as the Type. Click OK. On the background page, add one of the designs from the Backgrounds stencil or add other shapes and graphics that you want to appear on all the slides. | ||||||||
3. | To add a foreground page for each slide in the presentation, choose Insert, New Page, and under Page Properties, select Foreground as the Type, and in the Background list, select the name of the background page you created in step 2. | ||||||||
4. | Add text and shapes to each page (slide). | ||||||||
5. | To deliver the presentation, choose View, Full Screen or press F5. See Table 13-1 for page navigation techniques.
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6. | To return to the normal view in Visio 2007, which includes toolbars and menus, press F5 again, the Esc key, or right-click a page, and then click Close. |
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Full Screen view is for display only. You can’t make changes or edit the shapes.
Inside Out: Change the Full Screen view backgroundThe background in Full Screen view doesn’t have to be black. Even though Visio 2007 displays your page like a slide on a black background, you can specify a different color. To customize the background color, choose Tools, Options, and then click the Advanced tab. Under Color Settings, change the color setting for Full Screen Background. Presto! |