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Playback and Navigation settings

Use the Playback and Navigation settings to configure the options for PowerPoint to Flash conversion, specify settings to control Flash movie playback and settings of Flash movie navigation.

Playback and Navigation settings

Playback Options
Option Description
Preset iSpring Presenter 5 provides you with four preset playback modes. You can also create custom playback control presets to suit your individual needs.
Start presentation automatically Select this checkbox, if you would like your Flash presentation to start playing automatically as soon as the first slide is loaded.
Change all slides automatically If this checkbox is selected, slides in your Flash presentation will advance automatically.
Minimal slide duration This value indicates minimal playback time in seconds for non-animated slides. Slide duration for selected slides can be specified in Presentation Explorer.
Auto-play on-click animations each Select it to automatically advance to the next step for on-click animations after a specified number of seconds.

"Automatic animations" option will also respect timing set from within PowerPoint.
Loop presentation If selected, your presentation will automatically start from the beginning after the last slide is finished. This feature is essential for Flash banners and trade shows.
Resume presentation playback from the last slide viewed If selected, your presentation will prompt users to choose whether they want to resume presentation playback from the last slide viewed or start from the beginning again.
Mouse and Keyboard Navigation
Option Description
Advance animations on mouse click Select it to advance to the next animation step, when you click the mouse.

This option applies only for slides that contain mouse driven animations, 'Automatic animations' will always start according to the timings set from within the Custom Animation dialog of PowerPoint.
Enable keyboard navigation This option allows you to control presentation playback with keyboard keys.

Select this checkbox, if you want to control your presentation playback with keyboard. The following set of keys will be applied by default:
  • Page Up: go back to the previous slide
  • Page Down: advance to the next slide
  • Left: rewind
  • Right: fast forward
  • Up: increase volume
  • Down: decrease volume
  • Space: play/pause
  • Home: restart current slide
  • End: stop at the end of the current slide
  • Ctrl+Home: move to the first slide
  • Ctrl+End: move to the last slide
  • Backspace: return to the last viewed slide
  • Enter: move to the next animation step
  • Shift+Enter: return to the previous animation step


Click Customize control keys if you want to change the keys for certain actions. You can set up to three keys for each action and import/export a set of shortcut keys from/into a file.

Customize control keys

You can control your Flash presentation playback with your keyboard keys, customize them the way you want, import/export shortcut combinations from/into a file.

To make Keyboard Playback controls available for your Flash file, select the Enable keyboard navigation checkbox and click Customize control keys.

To reassign the shortcut keys, click Customize control keys.

Reset shortcut keys

Each action can be set to be controlled by up to 3 different keyboard keys.

To add a new key for an action, click a blue pen icon in one of the three columns in a corresponding line and press a required key or a key combination with Ctrl or Shift.

Note: You cannot assign the same key for two or more actions. If you press an already assigned key or a key combination, you will be asked, if you really want to reassign it.

Click the red cross icon to remove a shortcut key.

Customize control keys

You can export a set of shortcuts into a file to use them in other projects. Once you have assigned all shortcuts, click Export. Name the file and select the directory to save it to in the Save As dialog window.

Shortcuts window

To load a file with shortcuts, click Import and select a necessary file with an .isk extension.

Click Reset defaults to cancel all the changes and roll back to the default shortcuts.

 

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