Adding Slide Timings

Use PowerPoint's timing features to make sure that your presentation is not taking too long or going too fast. You can specify the amount of time given to each slide or use Rehearse Timings, which ensures that your timings are legitimate and workable . By rehearsing timings, you can vary the amount of time each slide appears on the screen. If you want the timings to take effect, make sure the show is set to use timings in the Set Up Show dialog box.

Set Timings Between Slides

Click the Slide Show menu, and then click Slide Transition.

Select the Automatically After check box.

Enter the time (in seconds) before the presentation automatically advances to the next slide after displaying the entire slide.

To apply the settings to all slides, click Apply To All Slides.

Did You Know?

You can use the mouse to control slide timings . In Slide Show View, a mouse click always advances a slide, even if the set timing has not elapsed, and holding down the mouse button prevents a timed transition from occurring until you release the mouse button.

Create Timings Through Rehearsal

Click the Slide Show menu, and then click Rehearse Timings.

As the slide show runs, rehearse your presentation by clicking or pressing Enter to go to the next slide.

When you're done, click Yes to accept the timings.

To test timings, start the slide show and note when the slides advance too quickly or too slowly.

Review and edit individual timings in Slide Sorter view.

Edit Timings

Click the Slide Sorter View button.

Click the slide whose timing you want to change.

Click the Slide Show menu, and then click Slide Transition.

Enter a new value in the Seconds box.

Click anywhere in the presentation to save the new timing.

Did You Know?

You can control slide show timings . To control whether your presentation uses timings you set or advances manually, click the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show, click the Manually or Using Timings, If Present option, and then click OK.