Tips & Tricks > Moving Around to Set Object Properties
9/10/2005 10:48:58 AM
Newbies often don't discover these shortcut capabilities at first, so I hope this post is useful to someone.
When using SSB to make "announcements", whether making segments promoting various church activities, or a series of slides commemorating the congregations 40th anniversary, or those "homemade" video scriptures, etc., I take advantage of SSB's convenient method of setting properties and animations in a series or group of "slides".
Similar capabilities are in SSP, except that SSP doesn't have the concept of "objects"
Did you know that when you are on a particular object in a slide and you call up the Object Properties dialog box to set the properties you want, SSB allows you to set properties on other objects without exiting the dialog box. You can simply click on another object of the same slide, or even click on another slide and then click on an object on that slide, and the properties for that object now appear in the dialog box and can be changed.
Doing so is much faster than setting properties for one object, clicking OK, going to the next slide, calling up the Object Properties box again, and repeating yourself.
In addition, if you want properties in several objects to be the same, you can use the icon that looks like a clipboard near the upper right to copy the tab's properties from the active tab to the clipboard, then move to a different object on the same or another slide and click on paste, all without leaving the Object Properties dialog box. Notice this is for the active tab, not all tabs.
SSP has the copy properties to clipboard also, except it uses a labeled button rather than an icon.
You probably already know about adjusting SSB margins by dragging the margin markers on the slide window (instead of using Display Properties), which is convenient but not something you do very often.
Actually, even when setting any of the Display Properties, both SSP and SSB allow you to go to other slides without exiting the Dislay Properties box. Again, this is faster than constantly exiting for each slide.
When using SSB to make "announcements", whether making segments promoting various church activities, or a series of slides commemorating the congregations 40th anniversary, or those "homemade" video scriptures, etc., I take advantage of SSB's convenient method of setting properties and animations in a series or group of "slides".
Similar capabilities are in SSP, except that SSP doesn't have the concept of "objects"
Did you know that when you are on a particular object in a slide and you call up the Object Properties dialog box to set the properties you want, SSB allows you to set properties on other objects without exiting the dialog box. You can simply click on another object of the same slide, or even click on another slide and then click on an object on that slide, and the properties for that object now appear in the dialog box and can be changed.
Doing so is much faster than setting properties for one object, clicking OK, going to the next slide, calling up the Object Properties box again, and repeating yourself.
In addition, if you want properties in several objects to be the same, you can use the icon that looks like a clipboard near the upper right to copy the tab's properties from the active tab to the clipboard, then move to a different object on the same or another slide and click on paste, all without leaving the Object Properties dialog box. Notice this is for the active tab, not all tabs.
SSP has the copy properties to clipboard also, except it uses a labeled button rather than an icon.
You probably already know about adjusting SSB margins by dragging the margin markers on the slide window (instead of using Display Properties), which is convenient but not something you do very often.
Actually, even when setting any of the Display Properties, both SSP and SSB allow you to go to other slides without exiting the Dislay Properties box. Again, this is faster than constantly exiting for each slide.
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