The Slide Editor

The Editor is the most robust way to edit a presentation. Here you have full access to the slides and can modify the contents of the slides and edit all of the various properties of the presentation. Since the Editor is a WYSIWYG (“What You See Is What You Get”) editor, what you are seeing in the editor is exactly what will be shown on your output.

To open the Editor, click on the Editor button in the toolbar, or right-click on a slide and select Edit Slide.

To begin editing a slide, select the slide you want to work with from the thumbnails on the left side of the Editor. This will change the slide that is open in the Editor. If you are done editing a presentation and need to edit another one, you can select the other presentation without having to close the Editor. You can also edit presentations even if you have another one running as a slideshow loop or have any slide or video showing.

Use the buttons in the lower-left corner to add new slides as needed. These two buttons are the same ones from the Slide Viewer.

The first seven buttons across the top of the Editor are used to add slide objects. These objects are: Text Box, Shape, Image, Video, Live Video, HTML Web Page, and Text Ticker. Slides in ProPresenter can support any combination of these objects on an individual slide. Click on the object that you want to add to the slide, then resize and position it where you would like it to be on the slide.

There are more options available for the Text Ticker. The Text Ticker can display plain text that is manually entered, it can be linked to an RSS feed URL, or it can show plain text that is stored in a local file.

You can specify the speed at which the ticker moves as well as the behavior of what happens when the ticker reaches the end. Loop Immediately will cause the ticker to begin right away after finishing, such that the first letter will appear immediately after the last letter. Loop with Delay will cause the ticker to finish playing completely, and then begin again. Do not Loop will play the ticker once and not loop it again.

The rulers button in the toolbar displays rulers on the left side and top of the Editor to make it easier for you to size and position objects on the slide. When you have the ruler mode open, you can click on either ruler and drag away from it to create an Editor Guide. This is a blue line that will persist on all other editor screens. Objects on slides will “snap” to these guides, making it easy to manually position objects in the same place on multiple slides

The last two buttons are used to change the arrangement of layers on the slide. The first is Bring Forward and the second is Send Backward.

If you are trying to center an object on the slide, yellow crosshairs will show up when you have reached the vertical and horizontal center points.

If you want to change the zoom level of the slide, click on the zoom menu in the lower-right corner and select a new zoom level. By default this is set to Scale to Fit so that you can see the entire slide regardless of your screen size or layout.