Add presentations

You can embed Microsoft® PowerPoint presentations in the model window and open them later for editing in the underlying program by double-clicking them.

Warning

Rotated texts are not properly transferred from Microsoft® PowerPoint 2007 to ARIS. Therefore, letter rotation cannot be displayed. We recommend that you copy text fields containing rotated text in Microsoft® PowerPoint and insert them as a graphic in the model window.

Procedure

  1. Activate the Insert tab bar.
  2. Click Insert OLE object OLE object.
  3. In the model window, click the position where the OLE object is to be placed.
  4. Create a new PowerPoint file by enabling the Create new check box, or select the PowerPoint file you want to insert as a presentation by enabling the Create from file check box.
  5. Specify the required settings.
  6. Click OK.

The presentation is inserted.

If you double-click the inserted presentation it opens in Microsoft® PowerPoint and you can present or edit it.

Tip

When you insert or edit OLE objects, a progress bar is displayed. This indicates that you are editing an OLE object even if the program window for the corresponding program is in the background.

See also

Insert OLE object

What are OLE objects?