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Slideshows

Displaying the current scrapbook in slideshow is as simple as clicking the Slideshow button in the Combined or Item view. By default, the slideshow will include all of the items in the scrapbook except movies and sounds, and will use a set of default slideshow settings. Slides will be the size of the Item Window in the current Combined or Item view, and will be centered on a colored background.

The slideshow operates and can be controlled as follows:

• The slideshow starts with the current item.
• It can be paused and restarted by pressing the space bar. While the slideshow is paused, slides can be manually advanced and reversed using the arrow keys (advance with right or down, and reverse with left or down). Command-home will return the slideshow to the first item, and command-end to the last item. Also while the slideshow is paused, it is possible to scroll multi-page items and to "play" sound resources and aGIFs.
• While the slideshow is playing or while it is paused, pressing any key except the space bar or arrow keys stops the slideshow and returns the scrapbook to the view being used before the slideshow was started.

Customizing Slideshows

Slideshow presentation can be customized in two ways: by changing slideshow settings and by changing display settings for individual items. Slideshow settings are user-determined options for how the slideshow operates for a particular scrapbook. These settings are selected in a two step process. First, default settings for all new scrapbooks are selected in the "Slideshows" section of the User Preferences. Second, settings for an individual scrapbook are changed in a Slideshow Settings panel. This panel is opened by selecting the Show Slideshow Settings command in the Scrapbook menu. Initially this panel is populated with the default settings from the User Preferences, but any of the settings can be changed and made unique to the particular scrapbook.

Changes to display settings, which have nothing to so with slideshows per se, also can be used to make slideshow presentations more interesting and effective. For example:

• Zoom images and scroll multi-page items to display how you want them to be seen. These "display settings" will be saved when the scrapbook is saved.
• If you want to display only some of the items in a scrapbook, mark the checkboxes for those items.
• If you want to display only the images in a scrapbook, do a Search for image types and then check the checkboxes for the found set.

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