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Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By : Russell Anderson-Williams
Book Image

Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations

By: Russell Anderson-Williams

Overview of this book

Prezi is a tool for delivering presentations in a linear or non-linear format. This cloud-based software enables users to structure presentations on an infinite canvass in a way that is much more engaging and visually stimulating to the audience. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" is a must read for anyone already using Prezi who wants to take their presentations to the next level. It covers all of the technical elements of the software, whilst also looking at the practicalities of using Prezi in a business environment. This book covers all the technical elements of Prezi and also teaches the reader how to think for Prezi, and approach their design in the best way. This is an essential resource for people who want to use Prezi seriously. As well as covering best practices for inserting imagery, sound, and video, this book also covers topics for business users like collaborating and sharing Prezis online, using Prezi at a meeting to brain storm with overseas colleagues, and how to 'Prezify' PowerPoint or Keynote slides. "Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations" will escalate you from Prezi user to master with ease.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Prezi for Business Presentations
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Grouping and moving


In the past, it was difficult to move lots of separate elements at once. You'd have to try and select them all at once and then move them. Now you can choose one of the two options to easily move lots of objects around on your canvas. We'll use the ants we saw earlier in this chapter because they are made up of lots of separate curved lines placed together. How on earth could we move all of those lines at once?

Using a frame

One way to move all of the ant's separate parts is to drag a frame around it. Once the frame surrounds all of the objects you want to move, you can select it and drag it anywhere as you can see in the following screenshot.

Once you've moved the objects to a new spot on your canvas, you can delete the frame.

Note

Hidden frames are the only frame type that this won't work with.

The Shift key

Another way, and probably a slightly easier way of moving lots of objects at once is to simply hold the Shift key down on your keyboard and drag across the canvas to select...