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The slide show toolbar is a tool for quickly reviewing charts for a series of instruments listed in a quote page. It can be requested from the quote page tool bar when a quote page is open or from the chart tool bar when a chart is active by clicking the Slide Show icon.

The controls on the slide show toolbar are similar to a slide projector and are detailed below:

	Start	Advance Slide Show automatically (see General Preferences)
	Stop/Close	Stop Slide Show, close toolbar
	Pause	Pause Auto-Advance
	Forward	Advance one slide
	Reverse	Backup one slide
	Beginning	Jump to first slide in sequence
	Last	Jump to last slide in sequence
	Multi-Link	S - Single Chart, M - Multi-Chart
	Print	Print chart each time symbol changes (each "slide")

The slide show toolbar associates the symbols in a quote page with an active chart window. This association is completely dynamic. You may modify or replace either the chart window or the quote page at any time. The slide show toolbar will then adjust automatically to your changes.

For example, you may pause a slide show, add a few symbols to the quote page and resume the slide show. The newly added symbols will automatically be included in the slide show sequence. Similarly, you can add new technical indicators, change to an altogether different chart or make any adjustments you wish to the chart and resume the slide show with the revised chart format.

Finally, you can click to select any symbol in the quote page and Investor/RT will automatically position the slide show toolbar at that instrument and chart the chosen symbol. The message area in the main tool bar shows the current position of the slide show. While the slide show toolbar is active, clicking or moving from symbol to symbol in the quote page using the up or down arrow keys causes the associated chart window to be redrawn with each symbol in turn.

The slide show toolbar now has a "Printer" icon at the right end. This button is used to turn on and off batch printing of charts during slide shows. When the button icon is a printer with a red slash through it, slide show printing is OFF. This is the default. Click the button to toggle between on and off. When the button icon is the printer icon (no red slash), starting a slide show causes each chart that appears during the slide show to be printed (including the first one that was visible when you start the slide show).

On the Windows platform, if you have a default printer setup, the printing takes place without user interaction. This new feature is not at present as useful on the Macintosh platform since the Macintosh printing function necessitates clicking a print button in an ensuing dialog box to confirm the print operation. Under MS Windows with a default printer specified this feature can print a batch of charts for the tickers in any quote page unattended. If you have multi-linking enabled for the slide show, only the front most chart window is printed for each ticker in the slide show.

The Multi-Chart button on the slide show toolbar makes it more convenient to switch between single chart and multi-chart slide shows. The button appears second to the right end of the toolbar and displays the letter M or S. M is shown when multi-chart slide show mode is in effect. Clicking the M button changes the button to S and vice versa (S means single chart slide show). When multi-chart slide show is in effect, advancing the slide show to the next ticker causes all open unlocked charts to be updated with the new symbol. When single chart slide show mode is in effect, only the front (active) chart window advances.

With a chart window in front and the slide show controller window is open, pressing the space bar advances to the next slide/symbol in the slide show. This shortcut can be used even if the slideshow is already advancing on its own.