• Welcome!
    • Technical support
    • About this manual
    • System requirements
  • Installation and program startup
    • Installing on Windows
    • Installing on macOS
    • Installing on Linux
    • Installing on Android devices
    • Installing on iOS devices
  • Basics
    • Application window
      • Title bar
      • User interface: Ribbon
      • User interface: Classic menus
      • User interface on Android/iOS
      • Context menu
      • Document tabs
      • Document
      • Status bar
    • Concepts
      • Slides
      • Objects
      • Slide designs
      • Slide layouts
      • Color schemes
      • Text
    • File operations
      • Starting a new presentation
      • Opening a presentation
      • Saving a presentation
      • Printing a presentation
      • Exiting the application
  • The Presentations tour
    • Entering text
    • When something goes wrong...
    • Using another slide design
    • Inserting a new slide
    • Inserting a picture
    • Applying a different color scheme
    • Creating a bulleted list
    • Inserting a table
    • Applying slide transitions
    • Applying object animations
    • Saving a presentation
    • Start running the slide show
    • Finished!
  • Working with selections
    • Selecting in the Windows, Mac or Linux version
    • Selecting in the Android/iOS version
  • Working with slides
    • Creating a new presentation
    • Inserting a new slide
    • Inserting slides from other presentations
    • Navigating between slides
    • Working with the mini sorter
    • Working with the mini outliner
    • Using the slide sorter and outline
    • Changing the order of slides
    • Deleting slides
    • Copying, cutting and pasting slides
    • Duplicating slides
    • Renaming slides
    • Resetting slides
    • Hiding slides
    • Changing the slide design
    • Changing the slide layout
    • Slide management
    • Creating headers and footers
      • Footers on slides
      • Headers and footers on notes pages and handouts
      • Changing headers/footers in master view
    • Changing the orientation of slides
    • Inserting a summary slide
    • Changing slide color scheme and background
      • Applying a color scheme
      • Creating and editing a color scheme
      • Slide background
    • Using slide transitions
      • Applying slide transitions via the ribbon tab
      • Applying slide transitions via the dialog box
    • Adding object animations
    • Using the sidebar
    • Adding notes
    • Printing handouts
  • Working with masters
    • The ribbon tab "Slide master"
    • Changing the text formatting in masters
    • Notes and handout master
  • Working with objects
    • Objects – basic procedures
      • Inserting objects
      • Selecting objects
      • Changing position and size of objects
      • Rotating and flipping objects
      • Changing the order of objects
      • Creating columns for inner text of objects
      • Duplicating objects
      • Changing the names of objects
      • Aligning and distributing objects
      • Grouping objects
      • Hiding objects
      • Changing the AutoShape of objects
      • Combining shapes
      • Editing shapes retroactively
      • Adding object actions
      • Changing object properties via the dialog box
        • Object properties, Format tab
        • Object properties, Fill tab
        • Object properties, Lines tab
        • Object properties, Shadow tab
        • Object properties, 3D tab
        • Object properties, Effects tab
        • Object properties, Properties tab
        • Object properties, AutoShapes tab
        • Additional tabs
        • Changing the default settings for objects
    • Text frames
      • Inserting text frames
      • Changing text frame properties via the ribbon tab
      • Changing text frame properties via the dialog box
      • Changing the text area
    • Placeholders
      • Inserting placeholders
      • Editing placeholders
      • Changing placeholder properties
      • Resetting placeholder properties
      • Deleting and restoring placeholders
    • Pictures
      • Inserting pictures
      • Inserting a photo album
      • Scanning pictures
      • Inserting pictures from the gallery/camera (Android and iOS)
      • Changing picture properties via the ribbon tab
      • Changing picture properties via the dialog box
    • Charts
      • Inserting charts
        • Inserting charts via PlanMaker
        • Inserting charts manually
      • Editing charts
        • Changing the chart type
        • Entering/editing the data of a chart
        • Showing/hiding chart elements
          • Showing/hiding axes and axis titles
          • Showing/hiding chart titles
          • Showing/hiding data labels
          • Showing/hiding error bars
          • Showing/hiding gridlines
          • Showing/hiding the legend
          • Showing/hiding lines
          • Showing/hiding the trendline
          • Showing/hiding up/down bars
        • Editing chart elements
          • Chart area
          • Plot area
          • Walls (three-dimensional charts only)
          • Floor (three-dimensional charts only)
          • Corners (three-dimensional charts only)
          • Data series and data points
          • Trendlines
          • Category axis (X axis)
          • Value axis (Y axis)
          • Series axis (Z axis)
          • Axis title
          • Chart title
          • Gridlines
          • Legend
        • Changing chart properties via the dialog box
      • Saving charts as pictures
    • OLE objects
      • Embedding OLE objects
      • Editing OLE objects
      • Editing links to OLE objects
      • Changing OLE object properties via the ribbon tab
      • Changing OLE object properties via the dialog box
      • Using the SoftMaker Equation Editor
    • Tables
      • Inserting tables
      • Ribbon tab "Table"
      • Moving in tables
      • Selecting table cells and cell contents
      • Deleting, copying, moving cell contents
      • Deleting and inserting table cells
        • Deleting cells from a table
        • Inserting cells in a table
      • Splitting and merging table cells
        • Splitting table cells
        • Merging table cells
      • Formatting tables
        • Distributing rows and columns evenly
        • Changing row properties
        • Changing cell properties
        • Changing general table properties
    • Media objects
      • Inserting media objects
      • Ribbon tab "Media object"
      • Changing the properties of media objects
    • Drawings
      • Inserting drawings
      • Adding text to AutoShapes
      • Changing drawing properties via the ribbon tab
      • Changing drawing properties via the dialog box
        • AutoShapes tab (available only for AutoShapes)
        • Inner text tab (available for AutoShapes with text added)
        • Text tab (available only for TextArt objects)
        • Transformation tab (available only for TextArt objects)
  • Animations
    • Object animations
      • Applying object animations via the ribbon tab "Animation"
      • Applying object animations via the dialog box
      • Animation properties in detail
    • Slide animation schemes
  • Working with text
    • Character formatting
      • Font and font size
      • Text styles
      • Font color
      • Superscripts and subscripts
      • Letter spacing and character pitch
      • Kerning
      • Hyperlinks
      • Format painter
      • Resetting the character formatting
      • Replacing fonts
    • Paragraph formatting
      • Indents
      • Line spacing
      • Spacing above/below a paragraph
      • Paragraph alignment
      • Non-breaking space
      • Changing the character format for whole paragraphs
      • Tabs
    • Bulleted and numbered lists
      • Bulleted lists
      • Numbered lists
    • Searching and replacing
      • Search
      • Replace
      • Repeating a search/replace
    • Moving, deleting and copying
    • Paste (special)
    • Inserting special characters
  • Comments
  • Running a slide show
    • Starting a slide show
    • Slide show setup
    • Custom slide shows
    • Slide show interaction
    • Using the presenter view
  • Outputting presentations
    • Printing a presentation
    • Exporting a presentation as a PDF file
    • Sending a presentation by e-mail
    • Exporting a presentation as HTML files
    • Exporting a presentation as picture files
    • Exporting a presentation as a movie file
    • Portable slide show
  • Language tools
    • Setting the language
    • Spell check
      • Manual spell check
      • Checking the spelling as you type
      • Conversion to the new German spelling
        • Enabling conversion to the new German spelling
        • Correcting words with old German spellings
        • Info command of the spell check
      • Editing user dictionaries
    • Hyphenation
    • Thesaurus
    • Research
    • SmartText
      • Creating SmartText entries
      • Inserting SmartText entries
      • Editing SmartText entries
  • Document management
    • Quick paths
    • Document summary
    • File manager
    • Searching with the file manager
    • Backup copies (file versions)
  • Document protection
    • Enabling document protection
    • Disabling document protection
  • Working with other file formats
  • Working with multiple documents
    • Creating or opening a document
    • Switching between open documents
    • Arranging documents on the screen
    • Closing a document
  • Customizing Presentations
    • Changing Presentations settings
      • Settings, View tab
      • Settings, General tab
      • Settings, Edit tab
      • Settings, Appearance tab
      • Settings, Language tab
      • Settings, Files tab
      • Settings, Backup tab
      • Settings, System tab
      • Settings, Fonts tab
      • "Manage" button
    • Export/import settings
    • Changing document properties
      • Document properties, Summary tab
      • Document properties, View tab
      • Document properties, Colors tab
      • Document properties, Statistics tab
      • Document properties, Protection tab
      • Document properties, Fonts tab
    • Customizing the document display
      • Zoom level
      • Full screen view
    • Customizing the ribbon
      • Showing and hiding the ribbon
      • Customizing icons and groups in the ribbon
      • Changing the position of the Quick access toolbar
      • Customizing icons on the Quick access toolbar
    • Customizing toolbars
      • Showing and hiding toolbars
      • Positioning toolbars on the screen
      • Managing toolbars
      • Customizing toolbar icons
      • Using the toolbar menu
    • Creating user-defined icons
    • Customizing shortcut keys
    • Using the grid
    • Using guides
    • Installing additional dictionaries
      • Installing additional SoftMaker dictionaries
      • Installing Hunspell dictionaries
      • Choosing a different dictionary for a language
  • Appendix
    • Ribbon commands and corresponding menu commands
    • Shortcut keys
      • Shortcut keys in Windows and Linux versions
      • Shortcut keys in Mac version
    • Command-line parameters