Chapter 12: Create A Presentation With Screens (Flash Professional Only); Set Up Your Workspace - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-LEARNING FLASH Manual

Create a Presentation with Screens (Flash
Flash MX Professional 2004 offers a new way, with slide screens, to create presentations. If you
can imagine placing media on slide screens, adding nested slides that inherit media from other
slides, and using the built-in controls to navigate through the slides at runtime, then you've
imagined exactly how easy it is to create a presentation with slide screens. This lesson
demonstrates the simplicity of slides as you accomplish the following tasks:
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Add content to a presentation slide
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Add screen navigation to buttons
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Add and name a slide
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Select and move slides
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Add content to a new slide
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Add transition behaviors to a slide

Set up your workspace

First, you'll open the start file for the lesson and set up your workspace to use an optimal layout
for taking lessons.
To open your start file, in Flash select File > Open and navigate to the file:
1.
On Windows 2000 or XP, browse to boot drive\Documents and Settings\All Users\
Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX 2004\language\Configuration\ HelpPanel\
HowDoI\BasicFlash\start_files and double-click presentation_start.fla.
Note: If the Application Data folder is hidden, you'll need to change your Windows Explorer
settings to see the folder.
On Windows 98, browse to boot drive\Windows\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash MX
2004\language\Configuration\HelpPanel\HowDoI\BasicFlash\start_files and double-click
presentation_start.fla.
On Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/Application Support/Macromedia/
Flash MX 2004/language/Configuration/HelpPanel/HowDoI/BasicFlash/start_files and
double-click presentation_start.fla.
Note: The BasicFlash\finished_files folder contains completed versions of lesson FLA files, for
your reference.
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