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Prezi Essentials

By : Dominique Charlotte Sinclair
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Prezi Essentials

By: Dominique Charlotte Sinclair

Overview of this book

If you want to learn Prezi, and specifically design within Prezi, this is the book for you. Perhaps you already know a bit about Prezi but have never used it, or perhaps you have used Prezi before but want to learn how to incorporate your own custom design elements. In either case, this book will get you up and running quickly. It would be helpful to have a bit of familiarity with basic design concepts and the use of Prezi, but prior experience is not essential.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Adding basic content

There are a number of basic content items you can add to your Prezi, and we will look at all of them in this section. The list includes: text, frames, arrows, lines, highlights, shapes, and symbols.

For adding content, you will almost exclusively need the menu located in the middle of the bar that runs along the top of the screen. The exceptions to this rule of using the top menus include adding text. The titles of the options that run across the top are: Insert and Customize. Insert is a drop-down menu, while Customize will launch the themes editing panel:

Adding basic content

Adding a frame

Let's first look at adding a frame, as this is usually how content will be contained within the frame—just as you would have contained content within a slide in PowerPoint. For this, we will not need to go to the top menus, but instead the left-hand side panel. Along the new frame option is a drop-down menu; you will notice that there are a number of options for adding frames. For the task...