While building your story you can see how looks and behaves for an audience, by playing it. It will occupy the whole browser view. You can see what your snapshots, live data sheets, texts, shapes, and visual effects look like.
If your audience asks questions, you can access the live data of your snapshots and your live data sheets. This way, you can find hidden stories to present, steering your story to new directions.
You can play a story as it would be presented to an audience. There are controls for you to navigate back and forth through the slides. On a slide with a live data sheet inserted, you must first click the sheet before you can start making selections in it.
Entering play
Do the following:
- In storytelling view, click
Play story.
The story is opened in is ready to play starting with the current slide.
Showing data point information
Do the following:
- Hover over a data point to display a tool tip with data point information.
Interacting with a live data sheet
To interact and make selections in a live data sheet you need to click somewhere on the sheet first.
Do the following:
- Click on the live data sheet.
You can now make selection in the sheet.
For more information, see Selecting in a live data sheet.
Closing play
Do the following:
- To close play either click
or press Esc.