This command creates a Stepper button. Stepper buttons are transparent, but display the word "Step" and a step number (initially, 1). Each time a Stepper button is clicked, its step number advances by one. Other than this, a Stepper button has no effect of its own, but it can be used as the beginning of a new chain for each step.
When no chain already exists for a given step, the step number is shown in parentheses. When a chain already exists for a step, the step number is shown with no parentheses. Thus when a Stepper button is first created, it shows the expression "Step (1)".
Resetting the slide will reset the step number to 1. Holding the SHIFT key down while clicking on a Stepper button will also restore it to step 1, but without restoring the rest of the slide. You can redefine the chain associated with any step by cycling to that step and then simply defining a new chain with the Stepper button as its first item. The newly defined chain will supplant any chain previously associated with that step.
Stepper buttons are handy when you want to have a number of chains of events associated with a slide, and want to go through them in a fixed order, but want to start each separately, and don't want to have to remember where to click for each new chain. Starting each from the same Stepper button, which is always in the same place, saves you from fumbling around looking for the button you meant to click next. You may find it especially convenient to locate Stepper buttons about where SmartSlides in fact creates them: in the lower right corner of the slide.
As initially created, stepper buttons always show their names, and thus show the step number. If you find this feature distracting or unsuitable, you can change a particular stepper button so its name will not show. To do so, choose the Button tool (e.g. from the TOOLS menu, double-click on the Stepper button, and uncheck the box that says "Show name". Choose the browse tool again, and you are ready to continue.
