The Timeline panel is situated at the bottom of the interface. The primary purpose of the Timeline is to organize the sequence of events on each slide, but the Timeline panel can be used for other purposes as well.
When resizing the Highlight Boxes earlier in this chapter, you probably had a hard time selecting the right object and you ended up moving or resizing the Mouse or a Text Caption instead of the Highlight Box. Using the Timeline panel, you can make sure that the object you select is the one you actually want to select! Perform the following steps to select an object using the Timeline panel:
1. Return to the slide 3 of the
encoderDemo_800.cptx
file.This slide contains four objects: two Text Captions, one Highlight Box, and the Mouse movement.
2. In the Timeline panel, click on the line that represents the Highlight Box.
Notice that eight white handles now surround the Highlight Box on the stage. Selecting an object on...