Saving Thumbnail Positions; Selecting Thumbnails - ScanSoft Kai’s Power SHOW User Manual

The Select control lets you create piles
with a single click. Once thumbnails are in
a pile, you can highlight a pile and move it
as a single object.
To arrange thumbnails into a pile:
1. Drag an area around the thumbnails
you want to place in a pile.
2. Click the Select control. A series of
buttons appears.
3. Click the Group button. All the
selected thumbnails are arranged
together into a pile.
To break up a pile:
1. Drag an area around the pile you want
to break up.
2. Select any Sort control button.

Saving Thumbnail Positions

If you've spent a great deal of time sorting
thumbnails on your desktop, you'll
probably want to save your arrangement
to recall it later.
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The memory dots at the bottom of the
Sort control let you save the position of all
the thumbnails.
The Sort control's memory dots save and recall
thumbnail positions.
Since performing a sort re-arranges
thumbnails on the desktop, you'll
probably want to save thumbnail
positions before you sort again.
Memory dots are saved with your
project or show file.
To save the position of thumbnails on
the desktop:
1. Arrange the thumbnails the way you
want them.
2. Click an empty memory dot at the
bottom of the Sort control to save the
arrangement.
Option/Alt-click a memory dot to
clear it.

Selecting Thumbnails

The Standard, or default, cursor lets you
select individual thumbnails or groups of
thumbnails. You can also use the Add or
Subtract cursors to add or remove
thumbnails from a selection.
To select thumbnails:
1. Make sure the Standard button is
active.
The Standard button.
2. Click the thumbnail you want to
select.
To select a group of thumbnails:
1. Drag an area around all the
thumbnails you want to select.
To add thumbnails to a selection:
1. Click the Select control. A series of
buttons appears.
2. Click the Add button.