Help Your Presentation Run Smoothly

An automatic self-running presentation runs independent of audience control, so you can literally hide the keyboard and mouse to minimize the potential of someone interrupting the show.

An interactive self-running presentation is inherently riskier, because you must allow audience access to a mouse or keyboard. You run the risk of someone stopping the presentation, or even rebooting the computer! It helps if you provide only a mouse, which the viewer clicks to advance slides. To help make this arrangement even more secure, click Options (Tools menu). On the View tab, make sure that the first two options in the Slide Show group are cleared. This disables features that allow viewers mouse access to slide show controls.

Focused clicking   You can create interactive buttons to advance slides. First, click Slide Transition (Slide Show menu) and clear the check boxes in the Advance box. Then create interactive “Next” and “Previous” buttons on each slide. For more information, see Branch to Other Locations.

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Want to know more?   Look up Getting Results - Self-Running Presentation in Help.

About PowerPoint Viewer

If you need to run a presentation on a computer that does not have PowerPoint installed, you can use PowerPoint Viewer, an application specifically designed to display presentations created with PowerPoint.

PowerPoint Viewer:

  Can be freely distributed.

  Takes less hard disk space than PowerPoint.

  Can be automatically added to a “traveling” presentation using the Pack and Go command (File menu).

  Can be used as a World Wide Web “helper” application.

Note that some advanced features and effects of PowerPoint do not work with PowerPoint Viewer. For information on features and on where to get the PowerPoint Viewer, visit the PowerPoint Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/powerpoint

Next Steps

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