Power Point 2003

This section demonstrates how to embed VCollab Presenter into Microsoft Power Point 2003.

VCollab Presenter can be embedded into PowerPoint 2003 in two ways

  • Embed through “Insert” menu items.

  • Embed through Control Tool box.

This section explains in further about

  • How to set images for offline mode?

How to embed Presenter through Insert Menu?

  • Click Insert menu.

  • Click menu item VCollab Control. This menu item is available if VCollab suite is installed in the system.

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  • This pops up open file dialog as below,

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  • Notice that VCollab control is embedded as below.

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  • Use right click options to view loaded model.

How to load Control Toolbox in Power Point 2003?

  • Open Microsoft Power Point 2003

  • Click View | Toolbars | Control Tool box as below.

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  • Make sure that More Controls icon is available in the toolbar as shown below in red circle.

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How to embed VCollab Presenter in Microsoft Power Point 2003?

  • Open Microsoft Power Point 2003.

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  • Make sure that Control Tool box tool bar is available. Load the tool bar if not.

  • Click More Controls icon Tool box tool bar as shown below.

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  • Select VCollab Control.

  • Draw a rectangle in the page and notice that presenter object is embedded.

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  • Click on the object with Right mouse button which drops down menu items.

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  • Select VCollab Control Object | Edit and notice that Presenter is ready to load model now as below.

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How to set current view as object image?

  • Embed VCollab control into PowerPoint.

  • Using context, load a cax model.

  • Click outside the presenter control.

  • Control becomes an object which displays the standard front view of the model.

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  • Click ‘VCollab Control Object | Edit’ to get into the viewer.

  • Transform the model. (either a rotation or translation or both)

  • Click outside the control window.

  • Still the control displays standard front view of the model in offline mode as above.

  • Click ‘VCollab Control Object | Edit’ to get into the viewer again.

  • Transform the model so that user can get a view which is to be set as object image.

  • Right click the mouse which drops down the context menu.

  • Select ‘Set as object or active image’ option.

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  • Click outside the control window and notice the change.

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  • User defined view was set as image to the object or control.

  • Save the presentation.