Starting a Slide Show

Once you have set up your slide show, you can start the show at any time. As you run your slide show, you can use the Slide Show toolbar, or Pop-up toolbar, to access certain PowerPoint commands without leaving Slide Show view. If your show is running at a kiosk, you might want to disable this feature.

Start a Slide Show and Display the Slide Show Toolbar

Click the Slide Show tab.

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Click the Slide Show View button on the Status bar to start a slide show quickly from the current slide.

Click the From Beginning or From Current Slide button.

Move the mouse pointer to display the Slide Show toolbar.

Click a button on the Slide Show toolbar to move to the next or previous slide, or navigate the slide show, or end the show.

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Press Esc to stop a slide show.

See Also

See "Setting Up a Slide Show" on page 314 for information on preparing a slide show.

Set Slide Show Options

Click the Office button, and then click PowerPoint Options.

In the left pane, click Advanced.

Select the slide show and pop-up toolbar check box options you want.

• Show menu on right mouse click. Select to show a shortcut menu when you right-click a slide during a slide show.

• Show popup toolbar. Select to show the popup toolbar at the bottom of a full screen presentation.

• Prompt to keep ink annotations when exiting. Select to be prompted to save your changes when you write on slides during a slide show.

• End with black slide. Select to insert a black slide at the end of the presentation.

Click OK.