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Using Pointers. When you are actually working with your PowerPoint presentation on screen, you have some options that allow you to use some different pointers. Now obviously a pointer is just referring to your mouse pointer and there is an option here to use a pen as well, as choose from some different pointers, and you are going to want to use these from time to time depending on your kind of presentation and it's a good idea to get to familiar with them. If you right-click anywhere on your screen and go to pointer options, you have three options here that concern the cursor. The first one is automatic and that's what's selected by default. What automatic means, is you will be able to see the cursor when you are actually doing something with it, but if you stop using the cursor for a moment it will kind of vanish into the background instead of actually being on your screen all the time. You know, otherwise, you would have to pull it way down here and try to hide the mouse cursor, but that's what will happen you know instead of it staying on the screen, it will kind of vanish. Now even though the cursor goes away, you can always right-click at any time and still get your menu, you don't have to worry about that, but the idea is that it's going to hide it. If you want it hidden all the time so as that you can't see it, just click hidden. Now you still have the cursor, you can right-click any time and it will reappear, once you are out, it goes away, and you may want to use this one because it makes sure that the mouse pointer isn't visible unless you are actually using it. The other option that you have is an arrow, what this does is basically leaves the mouse cursor on the screen all the time. So one of them is automatic, one of them is hidden, then the arrow option is always going to keep the cursor on your screen. It's totally your choice but think carefully because the mouse cursor can get in the way, you really want it out of way unless you are specifically using it. The next option is the pen option and this is really nice because what it's going to do is turn your mouse cursor into a pen, and if you hold down your left mouse key you can draw on the slide as you are presenting. Now this doesn't do any thing to the actual slide itself, it's simply an on-screen presentation format, and the whole point of it is you can underline words, circle words, or you know draw a star or what ever you want, to draw attention to certain things on the slide as you are talking about it; you may find that helpful. One thing that you'll also find helpful is the option to use different pen colors and if you go to that option here, you see have black by default but you can choose anything you want, blue, green, magenta, and so forth, and different colors obviously will stand out and you can underline, circle, draw, you can try to write if you want to. Writing with your mouse is a little bit difficult so that's something you probably don't want to do most of the time, but it's all there available to you. As a general rule when you are giving a presentation, you want to use this feature sparingly. If you really want to circle a word or underline a term or highlight it in some way, do so, but it doesn't do to draw all over the screen. All that does is make things more complicated and difficult for people to follow along with you. It doesn't make your slide easier to understand and certainly doesn't make your content any easier either. So think about that when you are using the feature. Now what about if you draw in all the stuff and you want to get rid of some of it? Well you can go down to screen just by right-clicking and choose erase pen and now it's all gone. You can draw all over it, as you need to, but then at any time just go to screen and choose your erase pen option. It's going to be grayed out unless you have actually drawn on the screen, then it will be available to you, as you can see here. So that's how you use the pointer option. Again, use the pen, as needed, don't use it if you don't really need it. Use your mouse, as needed, but it's a good idea to keep that mouse cursor hidden and out of the way, unless you actually need it for something on the screen otherwise it just tend to become a distraction. So think about those things, you should certainly spend some time practicing with them before you give a presentation, because you will want to get familiar with how they work and not be stumbling around during the actual presentation.