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The Use
mode tool - Moves and rotates objects
or text, without selection handles. The 'Use mode' tool
is also used to play flash objects.
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The Edit
tool - places the carat on the screen, ready for text
input from keyboard or pop-up keyboard; OR places the
carat within existing text ready for editing or stripe
selecting. This tool can also be used to select and
multi-select objects and resize/rotate them (with
handles).
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The Highlight
tool provides a pop-out of colour selections and can be
used as a highlighter pen or specifically to highlight
text in various colours.
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The Draw
tool offers the freehand, straight line, single arrow
and double arrow pop-outs. This tool uses the line width
and colour set within the line options tool.
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The Rectangle
tool draws a rectangle, ellipse, poly shape or custom
shape, utilising line and fill colour as selected within
the palette tools below it.
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The Palette tools (Fill
and Line) offer access to a range of
fill, line width and colour options.
The Fill Colour button opens a pallet of colours to be
used for text, shapes, fill and image effects.
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Undo and
Redo as many actions as you like from
your current session.
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The Magnifying
Glasses on the Easiteach Player toolbar allow
you to zoom in and out of the screen to enlarge an area
of particular interest when teaching.
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Text and Pictures can be
Cut, Copied and Pasted using tools on
the Easiteach toolbar.
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Several pieces of text
and/or images can be grouped together using the
Group button. This makes it simple to re-size
or rotate several objects together. There is no limit to
the number of objects that may be grouped.
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There are two options
available from the Speak button. The
Speak Word button says one word aloud.
The Speak Paragraph button says a whole
line or paragraph aloud.
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When two or more objects
(text and/or pictures) are selected they can be
Aligned. This button will bring up the Layout
window. The window offers a wide variety of ways to
align objects, including vertical, horizontal, left,
right or centred plains, changing the width or height
according to the first selected object and equalling the
gaps between items.
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The Effects
button allows you to change the effects for the object
you have selected. The style, line colour and fill
colour of all objects can be changed. If you have a
picture selected then the Graphics Effects window will
be shown, where a shadow or frame can be added to
pictures and lines. If you have text selected then the
Text Effects window will be shown. From here Typeface,
Spacing, Colour and changes to the Voice can be made.
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Utilities
function. The Utilities Toolbar provides access to
advanced features.
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The Object window
allows fine control over the attributes and behaviour of
objects such as a piece of text, a picture, a line etc.
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Lock/Unlock to
Background. Objects may be locked to the page,
meaning the object cannot be selected or moved. This
allows text to be typed over an object, which is useful
for background pictures. The 'Access locked items'
button is a toggle allowing you to edit all locked
items.
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The Links
window can be used to add interactivity to an Easibook
making lessons stimulating and exciting for students.
The basic links include: Linking to a file, web page or
another page of the Easibook and saying a word or
phrase. Advanced animation links include adding
animation, such as moving objects around the screen,
playing a sound and running a Turtle procedure.
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Text frames
allow you to keep text within a frame and Link
Text Frames enables you to link frames together
so the text flows from one frame to another, like in a
newspaper
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If you wish to change the
style of the voice for an Easibook you can do this using
the Speech Options.
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By clicking on
Record Sound it be added to Easiteach files in
two ways. It can be recorded and added as an icon on
screen or it can be added so that it will play when text
or a picture is clicked.
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The Background
Button will open the Looks window. From here the colour
of the page can be changed or the background can be
tiled using an image.
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Styles are
a quick way to set up the size, type and features of
text and shapes, for example, all 'Heading' text can be
set to the same font type and size.
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The Handwriting
tool allows you to write into an Easiteach document (or
other application if you are using Glass Mode) and have
the writing automatically recognised and displayed as
text. Handwriting can be recognised as joined-up, non
joined-up or numbers only.
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