How to | Create a Slide Show
| You can create and present slide shows directly from within Mathematica. Mathematica provides an integrated workflow from initial experimentation to final presentation. Mathematica-based presentations can contain interactive interfaces and live computations, letting your audience see the effects of changes to parameters in real time. | |
This is a selection of examples from the complete
"How to" screencast. »Slide shows can be created from existing notebooks or from the start. They can contain absolutely anything you can put into a
Mathematica notebook.
The easiest way to create a slide show is to use the palette. To open it, select :
To create a new slide show, select
New Template on the palette. This opens the slide show template notebook:
You can add content to any of the slides in the template and add new slides as you wish. Add this interactive plot to a slide:
To view this content in slide show mode, click the
Slide Show button under the
View Environment section of the palette:
In slide show mode, some adjustments are needed: the interactive plot is too large for the viewing area and the menu items and operating system windows are still visible. You may also want to hide the command used to create the interactive plot. While deleting the command does not affect your ability to view and use the interactive plot, you would not be able to change it later.
To fix these things, first return to authoring mode by clicking the
Normal button on the palette:
Double-click the cell bracket containing the plot to hide the command used to create it.
Here, the command used to create the interactive plot has been hidden. (To see the command again, double-click this outer bracket to open the cell group.) Note that the triangular flag on the outer cell bracket indicates the direction of the hidden command:
Click the
Slide Show button under the
View Environment section of the palette to return to slide show mode.
To display the slide show without the menu items or windows in the operating system, click the
button in the top-left corner of the window in slide show mode. This displays your slide show in full screen mode. To escape full screen mode, click
again:
Adding new slides to an existing slide show is very simple.
In authoring mode, click where you want to add a slide. A light horizontal line with a blinking cursor will appear.
Add a new slide by clicking the
New Slide button in the palette.
You can also use the palette to turn an existing notebook into a slide show. Open your notebook and click the
Convert Notebook button on the palette.
A small window pops up that lets you choose the cell styles that
Mathematica will use to create slide breaks. The notebook used in this screencast is organized by title and section cells, so selecting
Section and
Title and then clicking
Insert will create a slide show notebook where the title and each section are slides. Click
OK when the dialog box asks if you wish to proceed:
The presence of slides is indicated by the slide show break cells, which are the gray horizontal lines that separate each of the slides. These break cells were inserted before each of the cell styles that were selected in the
Convert Notebook popup window.
You are now ready to view the notebook as a slide show.
For more information on creating cells in the styles shown here, see
How to: Create and Work with Cells.
