Marking Slides During a Slide Show

Using the Pointer Pen

Using the pointer pen, you can draw lines on the screen during a slide show. You can use it to underline a word you want to emphasize or to circle a graphic you want to point out. As soon as you go to the next slide or the next animated object, the markings disappear. At the end of the show, you are given the option to keep or to discard them.

Practice: Using the Pointer Pen During a Slide Show

  1. Go to the last slide and start the slide show.
  2. To underline BamaMail account quotas to emphasize it, you can display the menu by moving the mouse until the pointer appears on the screen, and then clicking the transparent pen button that appears in the lower-left corner of the screen.

    3. Also, you can right-click the mouse anywhere on the screen to display a menu.

  3. Point to Pointer Options on the menu, point to Ballpoint pen and then choose an Ink Color by clicking on the Red color tile. The mouse pointer changes to the pointer pen. By clicking and dragging the pen on the screen, you can draw lines.
  4. Move the pointer pen below the "BamaMail Account Quotas ," press and hold down the Shift key so the pen will draw a straight line, and then drag the pointer from left to right to draw a straight line as shown below.

    5. Pointer pen image 

Pointer Options

To turn off the pen when you don't want it, right-click anywhere on the slide show screen, point to Pointer Options>Arrow Options and click Hidden.

Arrow Pointer options image

  1. Press the Esc key to end the slide show and return to Normal View.
  2. When prompted, choose to discard the ink annotations.

  3. Note there are other pointer options such as Highlighter and Eraser. Go on to the next section on Sending Slides to Word.

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