Neil Lucock

    neil@nlucock.freeserve.co.uk

Krishna Tateneni

    tateneni@pluto.njcc.com

Anne-Marie Mahfouf

    annemarie.mahfouf@free.fr

# The Menu and Toolbar Items

&stage; presents different types of interfaces for you to interact with the program. Perhaps the most familiar type of interface is the menu which appears on the top of the &stage; window.

Clicking on the menu items gives you a list of commands from which you can choose the one you want. Many of the commands can also be accessed directly by holding down &Ctrl; or &Alt; and pressing another key on your keyboard. In the next section, each of the menu commands is described in brief.

## The Toolbars

### Manipulating the Toolbars

In addition to the menus, &stage; also has a toolbar. The toolbar consists of a collection of icons. A toolbar icon often presents a convenient shortcut to a command that is found in one of the menus.

You can move the unlocked toolbar around by dragging the handle at the left. The unlocked toolbar can be docked or attached to any side of the &stage; window. If you like, you can also have the toolbar float in its own window, separated from the main &stage; window.

If you don't like dragging toolbars around, right click on the handle and a menu pops up.

Choosing the item Text Position leads to an additional menu which lets you control the appearance of the items in toolbar. This additional cascading menu is shown in the screenshot below:

Text Position
Text Position

You can choose to display the toolbar items as text instead of icons, or even to combine both icons and text. If you want both text and icons, the cascading menu allows you to select whether the text appears beside the icons or below them.

In icons only view, if you don't know what a particular icon means, you can hold the mouse over the icon, and after a second or so, a little hint pops up in a highlighted text box.

The Orientation item in the popup menu has to do with the placement of the toolbar. You can choose any of the four sides of the &stage; window.

The &stage; menus are discussed in the following sections.

## File Menu

&Ctrl;N File New

  Begins a new presentation. The startup dialog will open, allowing you to choose a template for your presentation.

&Ctrl;O File Open...

  Opens an existing presentation. A standard &kde; file open dialog will appear, allowing you to choose a file to open.

File Open Recent

  Displays a list of recently opened files for you to choose from.

&Ctrl;S File Save

  Saves the currently open presentation. If you have not previously saved it, you will be asked to name the file. If you have previously saved the presentation, it will be resaved with the same name.

File Save As...

  Saves the currently open presentation with a new name.

File Reload

  Reload the currently active file.

File Import...

  Import a presentation that was previously created in one of several common formats.

File Export...

  Export the currently open presentation to one of several common formats for use in another application, or for exchange with someone who does not have access to &stage;.

File Mail...

  Open a new email message in your selected email client with the current &stage; document attached.

File Export as HTML...

  Starts the HTML wizard, which is described in the section .

&Ctrl;P File Print...

  Prints the presentation. More precisely, it opens the print settings dialog, where you can adjust the settings before printing your presentation.

File Print Preview...

  Displays the presentation with a viewer, exactly as it would look if printed.

File Document Information

  Allows you to enter information about the document. This includes information about the author, and an abstract on the documents contents.

&Ctrl;W File Close

  Close the current presentation. You will be given an opportunity to save any changes first.

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

  Close &stage;. You will be given an opportunity to save all changes in all open presentations first.

## Edit Menu

&Ctrl;Z Edit Undo: Last task

  Undo the last action you performed.

&Ctrl;&Shift;Z Edit Redo: Last undone task

  Redo the last action you undid. If you have not undone any actions, or the last undo action is not reversible, this menu item is disabled.

&Ctrl;X Edit Cut

  Copy the selected item to the clipboard, and remove it from the document.

&Ctrl;C Edit Copy

  Copy the selected item to the clipboard, while leaving it intact in your presentation.

&Ctrl;V Edit Paste

  Insert the contents of the clipboard into your presentation.

&Ctrl;Del Edit Delete

  Remove the currently selected item from your presentation.

&Ctrl;A Edit Select All

  Select all the objects and text on the current slide.

&Ctrl;&Shift;A Edit Deselect

  Deselect any currently selected objects.

&Ctrl;F Edit Find...

  Search for text within the presentation.

F3 Edit Find Next

  Find the next occurrence of a piece of text within a presentation.

&Shift;F3 Edit Find Previous

  Find the previous occurrence of a piece of text within a presentation.

&Ctrl;R Edit Replace...

  Replace one or more occurrences of a piece of text in your presentation with a different piece of text.

## View Menu

View New View

  Opens another window with the same presentation loaded so you can work on more than one slide at a time.

&Ctrl;F5 View Normal &Ctrl;F6 View Notes &Ctrl;F7 View Slides Sorter

  Switch with these actions between the view modes Normal, where you edit slides, Notes, which shows a slide preview with a textbox for your annotations for the actual slide and the Slides Sorter view, where you can rename, cut, copy and paste slides and arrange them for your presentation.

&Ctrl;F8 View Show Master Slides

  Toggle the display of the slide master where you can put objects that you want to appear on each slide in your presentation.

View Show Grid

  If enabled, &stage; will display a grid of dots representing the intersections of imaginary horizontal and vertical lines. You can use these dots to precisely position objects on the slide.

View Snap to Grid

  If this is enabled, when dropping or moving objects on the slide the top left corner of the object will snap or move, to the nearest grid point.

  This does reduce your freedom to freely position objects on the slide, however it also helps to line up objects precisely. It is easily disabled or enabled with this menu entry, allowing you the best of both worlds.

View Show Guides

  When working in &stage; you can drag a guide line from either the horizontal or vertical ruler onto your document. This guide-line will not print or display in the finished presentation, it is simply to help you align objects on screen. If this item is enabled, these guide lines will be visible. If this is disabled, they will not be visible.

  Guide lines work across slides, allowing you to align objects the same way across multiple slides.

  Disabling (hiding) guide lines does not delete them. If you have created guide lines, and then disabled this item, enabling it again will retain the guide lines you created.

View Zoom

  This submenu allows you to zoom in or out of the slide. Several predefined zoom levels are available, including Fit Page to scale the entire slide so as to be visible in the size window you have open, and Fit Page Width to scale the slide so it fills the entire width of the window, although you may now have to scroll vertically. There are also several other scaling choices, from 33% up to 500%.

## Insert Menu

Insert Variable

  Here you can insert a variable that is filled in with a value that may be updated as you update the document.

Insert Import Slideshow...

  Insert an already existing presentation. A standard &kde; file open dialog will appear, allowing you to choose a OpenDocument Presentation (.odp), which will be inserted after the last slide in your current presentation.

Insert Insert Pictures as Slides...

  Use this menu item to insert one or more pictures, each is inserted on a new slide. This is useful for the people who want to use &stage; to make a slide show.

Insert Scan Image...

  Scan an image with a scanner. This requires you have a scanner installed. It opens a scan dialog to allow the use of the scanner.

## Format Menu

Format Font...

  The Select Font dialog contains options for selected segments of text.

  With this dialog, you can change the font, style and size of selected text. The preview box at the bottom allows you to approximate changes before you make them.

&Ctrl;&Alt;P Format Paragraph...

  The Paragraph Format dialog contains settings for larger blocks of text, such as paragraphs. Using this dialog, you can set indenting, line spacing, bullet/numbered list and border settings.

&Ctrl;&Alt;S Format Style Manager

  The Style Manager allows you to create an entire set of attributes that will be applied to selected text all at once.

Format Page Layout...

  Allows you to set the page details. You can specify the margins, the orientation, either portrait (higher than wide) or Landscape (wider than high) formats. There are many templates, such as screen, A4, US legal.

## Slide Menu

Slide Insert Slide

  Insert a new slide after the current one.

Slide Copy Slide

  Copy the current slide to the clipboard.

Slide Delete Slide

  Delete the current page from the presentation. You will be asked to confirm this action.

PageUp Slide Previous Slide

  Go back to the previous slide in the slide show.

PageDown Slide Next Slide

  Go to the next slide in the slide show.

&Ctrl;Home Slide First Slide

  Go directly to the first slide in the slide show.

&Ctrl;End Slide Last Slide

  Go immediately to the final slide in the slide show.

## Slide Show Menu

&Shift;F5 Slide Show Start Presentation From Current Slide

  Begin the slideshow from the current slide.

F5 Slide Show Start Presentation From First Slide

  Begin the slideshow from the first slide.

Slide Show Configure Slide Show...

  You can set up the properties for the entire slide show here, including whether to show the duration on screen, which of the slides in a presentation to include, and several other global settings.

## Settings Menu

The Settings menu allows you to customize &stage;.

Settings Show Toolbar

  In this menu you can both enable and disable the display of toolbar.

Settings Configure Shortcuts...

  Configure Shortcuts allows you to assign a keyboard shortcut to actions that &stage; menus or icons contain.

  Customize Shortcuts
  Customizing the shortcuts

  If you try to assign a shortcut that is already used, it will give you a warning message. Highlight what you want to do (in the picture, I have chosen to make a keyboard shortcut to About KDE).

  Click the radio button to the Custom key setting and type the key you want to use. I assigned Control key and Y to bring up the About KDE dialog box.

  The button shows what has been assigned. Click OK to make the changes, click Default to restore whatever was assigned as default, click Cancel to do nothing and leave the dialog.

Settings Configure Toolbars...

  Configure Toolbars allows you to add or delete icons on each of the toolbars.

  Configuring &stage; toolbars
  Configuring &stage; toolbars

  At the top is a drop down box to enable you to choose which toolbar you want to modify. In the picture the File toolbar is selected. If I want to add the Dockers icon to that toolbar, I click the entry in the left window. The arrow pointing right becomes available, if I click the arrow the Dockers entry is added to the selected toolbar. The left arrow is available when you click in the right side window. It allows you to remove an icon from a toolbar. The up and down arrows become active when an item on the right side is selected. You can also move the highlight in the right side window up and down with the keyboard arrow keys. By clicking on the arrows with the mouse you can change the order of the entries in the menu.

Settings Themes

  Choose the color theme for &stage; window. You can choose one of the predefined color schemes or select Configuration... to open &systemsettings; color selection module.

Settings Configure Stage...

  See the Configure &stage; section for a complete explanation of all &stage; settings.

## Help Menu

&help.menu.documentation;