While performing a Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 slideshow, it is possible to draw directly on the slides. You can highlight parts of the slideshow, draw boxes around particular graphics, write text, and much more.

When viewing a slideshow, click the right-mouse button. From here, you can choose several pen styles:

* Ballpoint Pen
* Felt Tip Pen
* Highlighter

You also have the option of "Arrow", which replaces the selected drawing pen with a normal mouse arrow.

After selecting a pen style, merely hold the left mouse button down while moving your mouse to 'draw'. You can draw anywhere you wish. Release the button to stop drawing.

Since the mouse is now used for drawing, you must navigate the slideshow with your keyboard. The space bar or right-arrow goes to the next slide; the left-arrow goes to the previous. Note that if you draw on one slide, jump to the next slide and then return, your drawings will remain.

When you quit the slide show, you'll be asked whether or not you wish to keep your drawings. Agree, and the drawings will become part of the slide show. You can remove them later if you wish in the Slide editor view by selecting the drawings and clicking the "Delete" button.

To 'draw' with a different color 'pen', right-click and choose "Ink Color", then choose the desired color. To use a different color by default, you'll need to perform the following tasks outside of the slide show:

1. Click "Slide Show" - "Set Up Show".

2. Underneath "Show Options", next to "Pen Color", click the pull-down to choose a default color.

3. Click "OK".

Finally, to erase part of your drawing, right-click and choose "Eraser", then click on the drawing you wish to erase. Right-click and choose "Erase All Ink on Slide" to remove all drawings from the current slide.

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