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Select, move, and edit screens

When you select an individual screen in the Screen Outline pane, the screen appears in the Document window. To apply modifications to several screens at once, select multiple contiguous or discontiguous screens in the Screen Outline pane. When you select multiple screens, the contents of the first screen selected appear in the Screen Outline pane.

By default, the contents of a slide screen are not visible when you show the screen’s parent in the Document window (the Hide Screen context menu option is selected). To show the contents of a slide screen when its parent appears, deselect this option. When the Hide Screen context menu option is deselected, you can select the child slide screen on the Stage. This feature affects display during authoring only, not runtime playback. The Hide Screen context menu option is deselected for form screens by default. To hide child form screens in the display during authoring, turn the option on.

You can cut, copy, paste, and drag screens in the Screen Outline pane to change their position in the document, and you can remove screens from a document.

Note: The terms child, parent, and ancestor refer to the hierarchical relationships of nested screens.

View a screen in the Document window

 Do any of the following:

  • To view that screen, click a screen thumbnail in the Screen Outline pane.

  • To navigate to the screen, use the keyboard keys with the Screen Outline pane in focus.

  • To navigate through the screens, select View > Go To and select the screen name from the submenu, or select First, Previous, Next, or Last.

  • Click the Edit Screen button at the right side of the edit bar and select the screen name.

Select multiple screens in the Screen Outline pane

  • To select multiple contiguous screens, Shift-click the first and the last screen to select.

  • To select multiple discontiguous screens, Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) each screen.

Edit an item on a screen

  Select the item in the Document window.

View the contents of a child screen when the parent screen appears

 To turn off the Hide feature (Hide Screen is selected for slide screens by default.), click Hide Screen in the child screen’s context menu.

Select a child screen on the Stage

  1. Deselect Hide Screen.
  2. Select the parent screen in the Screen Outline pane.
  3. Click in the contents of the child screen on the Stage.

Edit an item on an ancestor screen of the current screen

 Double-click the item in the Document window.
Note: By default, items on ancestor screens of the current screen are dimmed in the Document window.

Fully render all items on ancestor screens

 Select View > Preview Mode > Full.

Cut or copy a screen

  Do any of the following:

  • Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the screen, and select Cut or Copy from the context menu.

  • Select Edit > Cut or Edit > Copy.

Paste a screen

  Do either of the following:

  • After cutting or copying the screen, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) another screen and select Paste from the context menu. The cut or copied screen is pasted after the selected screen. To nest the pasted screen within the selected screen, select Paste Nested Screen from the context menu.

  • After cutting or copying the screen, select Edit > Paste In Center or Edit > Paste In Place.

Drag a screen in the Screen Outline pane

  Using the mouse, drag the screen to any other position in the Screen Outline pane. Release the mouse button when the screen is in the desired position. To nest a screen within another screen, drag it towards the right side of the Screen Outline pane below the intended parent.

Remove a screen

  Do one of the following:

  • Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the screen, and select Cut or Delete from the context menu.

  • Select the screen, and click the Delete Screen (-) button at the top of the Screen Outline pane.

  • Press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (Macintosh).



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