Sound Idea
Make your presentations come alive with music and sounds. To add a sound file, click on Format > Slide Properties > Sound. Locate the sound files you want to insert in your slide. If you intend to play the presentation on another computer that might not have the sound file, enable Save Within Slide Show Document. To add this sound to all other slides, check the Apply To All Slides in Slide Show checkbox.

Animating Bullets
Catch your viewerÆs attention to certain points in your slide show using animated bullets. Deselect the bulleted list if it is selected. Right-click the list and click on Object Animation. Click on the Animate Object Across Screen button and from the Effects box, select the animation that you want. Once youÆve setup all the options for your bullets to be animated, click on Ok to finish.

Audience Notes
Creating audience handouts in Corel Presentations is a simple matter of adding Audience Notes to your slides and printing them. Audience Notes will include thumbnail images of your slides along with a few lines of space besides each for audience to take their own notes. To create audience notes, click on File > Print and select Audience Notes. Choose the number of slides to be printed per page and click Print.

Colour Chameleon
Change colours of graphics with a fade effect. To apply a colour change effect, select the graphic object and click on the Foreground Fill Color tool and select the colour you want from the colour palette. Copy and paste the object into the same slide. Select the new object, and fill it with another colour. Click on Edit > Select > All (to select both objects), right-click the selection and click on Object Animation. Select Animate Object in Place. In the Effects list box, select Fade.

Smart Contours
Corel Presentations 9 can contour text around graphic objects in your slides. This can help place text in a more aesthetically pleasing way. However, this can be done only on graphics and shapes and not on clipart, images or charts. Insert a graphic or shape on the slide and select both, the textbox and the inserted object. Click on Tools > Contour Text. Select the appropriate contour options and click OK.