Welcome!

Welcome to Presentations! You have acquired a presentation graphics program that combines user-friendliness with a practical scope of features and high compatibility with common programs!

You can use Presentations to quickly create impressive and informative presentations. From two-slide presentations to dynamic multimedia slide shows, Presentations provides easy-to-use tools that enable you to produce professional presentations.

Presentations is also highly compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint. You can easily reuse existing PowerPoint presentations and can always open, edit and save presentations which you receive in PowerPoint format from colleagues, customers or friends.

Note: This manual was written in order to describe how to use the program via the new ribbon user interface. A description of its use via classic menus with toolbars can only be found in older manuals.

Tip: A table in the appendix shows you which ribbon command corresponds to which menu command:
Ribbon commands and corresponding menu commands

Some features have been disabled in SoftMaker FreeOffice (the free version of SoftMaker Office). These features are indicated by a red box like this one in the manual.

Some features of Presentations

▪Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS

▪Well-designed, ergonomic user interface – either with a modern "ribbon" or classic menus with toolbars

▪Ability to insert pictures, movies, sounds and drawings directly into a slide

▪Animated objects and numerous versions of attractive slide transitions ensure that interesting presentations can be created.

▪Many attractive design templates are included to enable you to quickly find an appealing design for your slide show and thus save time.

▪Wide range of functions for text formatting

▪Integrated outline view for structuring your thoughts before and during slide shows

▪The practical mini sorter enables you to always maintain an overview of your slides even for extensive slide shows.

▪Document scanning – scanning via WIA is also supported in addition to TWAIN

▪Save your slide shows in PowerPoint format or export slides as image files.

▪Print handout sheets (a printed version of the slide show) for your audience.

... and much more!

Presentations is being developed continually. If, when working, you discover the need for a feature that is not yet available or if you have any other suggestions, please contact us as we want Presentations to meet the needs of users!

Additional features in SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal

The even more powerful SoftMaker Office Professional and SoftMaker Office NX Universal include an advanced version of Presentations which offers the following additional features:

▪Compress pictures compresses inserted pictures to reduce the size of the file

▪QR code/Barcode – generate your own QR codes or linear barcodes

Android version and iOS version: Unlock locked commands

Presentations is also available for Android and iOS devices and contains virtually all features of the Windows version.

Some commands are locked in the Android/iOS version (recognizable by the lock in the command icon), but they can be unlocked if necessary.

To unlock the commands, click on the command icon. The program opens a dialog box with the following options: Users of SoftMaker Office NX Home and NX Universal can use their product key to unlock commands. Users of other versions have the option of unlocking the features via Google Play/Apple App Store (subject to a fee).