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You can view and set ArcGIS Explorer presentation options. These options control the behaviors, content, and appearance of the presentation. To set presentation options, on the Presentation tab, the Start Presentation group, click Options.

##### You can control these aspects of an ArcGIS Explorer presentation

- Allow slides to change the basemap
- Show the presentation toolbar
- Smooth the edges of fonts when drawing text
- Determine which slides to show
- Slide timings

##### Allow slides to change the basemap

When you capture a slide, you also record the information about which basemap was present at the time of capture. If you change the basemap during your session and then capture another slide, the application records that new basemap information so that during a slide presentation, each slide will display the basemap that was present at the time of capture; however, this may not be optimal for performance reasons. If you uncheck this option, the presentation will use the basemap of the first displayed slide, for all slides of the presentation, ignoring any change to the basemap implicit in other slides.
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##### Show the presentation toolbar

The presentation toolbar appears in the upper left corner of a running presentation. As you move the mouse cursor over the toolbar it becomes brighter. The toolbar contains controls you can use to move through the slide collection, show the Slides window, and end the presentation:

| 1. Pause slide show (only shown if slide advance mode is set to automatic).
2. Move to the next slide.
3. Move to the next slide.
4. Show the Slides window.
5. End the presentation.

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##### Smooth the edges of fonts when drawing text

This setting controls how the application draws text for slide titles. If you check this option, your slide title text will have smooth (anti-aliased) edges.
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##### Determine which slides to show

Set which slides appear during the presentation by choosing All to display all non-hidden slides or specify a range of slides to display. Use the number assigned to the slides in the Slides window as the starting and ending slide numbers.
Tip To loop the presentation, so that it runs unattended continuously, choose All and, in the Advance Slides section, choose to advance the slides automatically by a specified number of seconds. The presentation will run from beginning to end and then repeat, beginning at the starting slide, until you stop it by either pressing the End button on the Presentation toolbar or by pressing the Esc key on your keyboard.
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##### Slide timings

This setting allows you to specify a default time interval to apply to slides when the Slide Advance Mode is set to Automatic. Any change to the value will be reflected in the Time combo box on the Slide Timing group of the Presentation tab. Additionally, you can reset the timings for all slides in an existing presentation by clicking on the Update All Slides button.
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