Quick Start Guide

Presentation Assistant has a simple intuitive user interface which you should be comfortable with in very little time. The following Quick Start Guide covers the basic operations.

Presentation Assistant has five tabs.

• Timer Tab
• Screen Zoom and Annotation Tool Tab
• Electronic Whiteboard Tab
• Tasks Shortcut Tab
• Playing Music Tab
  

Display countdown on screen at admission

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• Displays a countdown or a normal clock on the projection screen to show the reminder time.
• Displays background picture to cover your Windows desktop.

Tips:

• Click the Start button to enter timer mode, exit timer mode with Escape.
• Double-click the timer window to hide it, click the Start button to reactivate it.
• Click the Advanced button to customize transparency, timer location setting.

Grab Audience's Attention

You can use Presentation Assistant to focus the audience’s attention on a particular point. The electronic pointer can help the audience see the pointed content more clearly. Using spotlight and curtain can attract the audience to focus on the current key area.

Draw freely on screen for quick explanation

The Screen Draw tools include: Line, Arrow, Pen, Brush, Rectangle and Ellipse, And you can choose from different width pens to draw in your choice of color.

To enable Screen Draw, just click the Screen Draw Tools button or with the system-wide hot keys Alt + 2 .

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Zoom Screen

ITo zoom in screen, click Screen Zoom on Additional Tools pane, Zoom in to where your mouse is pointing. And then the mouse pointer changes to a hand, you can pan it by moving them vertically, horizontally, and diagonally across the display area to view specific areas of the desktop. Zooming in or out with the keyboard or wheel.

• A much quicker way to zoom is with the Ctrl and the + and - keys, either on the numeric keypad or on the main keyboard. And you can also zoom screen with your wheel using the mouse by holding down Ctrl,
• To zooms into a selected area of your screen for emphasis, simple press of a key "Z' or select Zoom within Rectangle from the right-click pop-up menu, and click the left button and drag a selection rectangle, you can zoom with the selection rectangle.
• You can simple press of a key "Enter" to begin annotating on the zoomed screen.

Write or draw directly on the Electronic Whiteboard

Presentation Assistant also emulates a computer whiteboard.

Open Documents and Programs quickly

All the time, our materials are scattered around and we are busy searching for them in the meeting. Using Presentation Assistant, all required materials are well configured in one time.

• Click Add button to add new shortcuts. Click Remove button to remove the selected shortcuts.
• You can also drag and drop files or folders from Windows Explorer to the list.
• Double-click the shortcut to open it.

Play background music conveniently during the presentation

A music player is integrated which meets the requirement for playing background music during the presentation. Required background music can be configured before the meeting. It can be operated simply and quickly.

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