The Main Menu lets you choose how the PowerPoint slide show plays. You can play slide show automatically, manually or display it in thumbnail view. Click (it will not be available, when you only choose one display mode) to customize the Main Menu. On the preview area, you can see the title of the current PowerPoint file at top, below which the play options are displayed. This setting only takes effect on the PowerPoint file that shows on the "Current file" field in the DVD Menu step. If you want it to affect all the files in the project, just click .

 

Menu Settings

 

• Menu Button Style
  To apply a menu frame style, select a frame style from the gallery. The changes are shown on the preview pane in real-time.
  
  
• Menu Layout
  There are five preset layouts for menu buttons in the program. Click on a layout to apply it to menu buttons.
  
  
• Captions
  To change the captions on a button and title on the preview area, click on the button or title, and then enter the new caption on the editing area:
  




Besides, you can change the font, size, color and style of the caption. Click Save as Default to apply current settings as default.

 

Alignment
You can use the align function (on the top of the window) to quickly align the menus. Click and hold your left mouse button as drag you to draw a rectangle to enclose the objects you want to align, and then click an align button to align the objects.

Background

 

• Background Fill
  
  Template: Specifies the pictures that come with PPT2DVD used for filling the background. Choose a category from the drop down list, then select a template from the gallery. You can get more templates from our site by clicking "Click here to get more templates".
  
  Color: PPT2DVD allows you to use gradient color to fill the background. There are three colors to choose. You can change the linear angle by entering a degree on the text field, and change the color stops by moving the slider. You can see changes on the preview area in real-time.
  
  Custom image: Click to import an image from your drives as the background.
  Note: The background here refers to the one used for Main Menu. It will NOT affect your PowerPoint files or other DVD Menus.
  
  
• Background Music
  Besides the visual properties, you are also allowed to add background music for DVD Menus. This music only take effect to the current Menu, in other words, if you add background music to the Main Menu, it only plays when Main Menu is shown. To add background music, click to locate an audio clip from your drives, and then click Open. After you import an audio file, you can click to play it, or click to remove the current music.