Time and Rehearse Your Presentation

After you prepare your presentation, you want to make sure that you’re ready to go and that everything works correctly.

First, do a “dress rehearsal” of your presentation with the Rehearsal dialog box displayed. Each time you advance to the next slide, the amount of time the slide was displayed is recorded. After you run through your presentation, PowerPoint asks if you want to keep the timings and display them in slide sorter view. While in this view, you can see if you have too much or too little material, and make the necessary adjustments. Click Rehearse Timings (Slide Show menu).

Rehearse Timings button (Slide Sorter toolbar)

Time your presentation with the Slide Meter   When you rehearse a presentation, use the Slide Meter to keep track of how you’re doing compared to the slide timings you originally entered for each slide. While the slide show is running, right-click, and then click Slide Meter on the shortcut menu.