Slide Show Settings

Quick reference

• 00:04 Throughout this course, we've been running our slide show.
• 00:07 And to do that, for the most part, we've been pressing the F5 key on our keyboard.
• 00:11 But that isn't the only way that you can run a slide show.
• 00:16 So in this lesson, I want to take a look at the slideshow tab and just go through
• 00:20 with you some of the different ways that you can not only run a slideshow but
• 00:25 also set one up.
• 00:26 So let's go directly to that slideshow tab.
• 00:30 Now in the first half of the start slideshow group,
• 00:33 this is where we can determine from which point in the presentation we want to start
• 00:37 the slideshow from.
• 00:39 So a lot of the time, you're going to want to run your slideshow from the beginning.
• 00:43 And you'll see that as I hover over that option in the screen tip,
• 00:46 that is that keyboard shortcut that we've been using of F5.
• 00:50 It's by far the quickest way to run a slideshow.
• 00:52 Now the other option that you have is to run from the current slide.
• 00:57 So if you are partway through your presentation, so
• 01:00 let's say we are on slide eight, for example.
• 01:03 If I was to click from beginning or press the F5 keyboard shortcut,
• 01:07 it's basically going to run this slideshow from slide number one.
• 01:12 Now if you want to start it from slide number eight,
• 01:16 you can choose from current slideshow.
• 01:18 Alternatively, the keyboard shortcut for that is shift plus F5.
• 01:23 And don't forget you also have the ability to run a slideshow and that is run
• 01:28 a slideshow from the beginning by clicking on the slideshow icon in the status bar.
• 01:33 Now another thing that's good to do prior to running your slideshow is to set up
• 01:38 your slideshow first.
• 01:39 And you'll see in the Set Up group in the middle here,
• 01:43 the first button is the Set Up Slide Show button.
• 01:47 And as you can see from the screen tip,
• 01:49 it says set up advanced options for the slide show such as kiosk mode.
• 01:53 Now in this first group of Show type,
• 01:55 you can choose what type of presentation you want to set up.
• 01:59 So for example, if I was presenting this to a room full of people,
• 02:04 I'm going to be presenting it so
• 02:06 I would select the first option presented by speaker full screen.
• 02:11 Now it's worth noting that if you do choose this first option,
• 02:15 then the side is going to take up the full screen.
• 02:17 Now if you would prefer to have the slideshow running in a window, so
• 02:22 maybe you want to see other applications that you have on your desktop.
• 02:27 Then the option you would choose for that is browse by an individual window.
• 02:31 And finally, the last option in here is perfect if you are using
• 02:35 this presentation at something like a trade show.
• 02:39 So I'm sure we're all familiar with maybe walking into a live event, and
• 02:43 seeing large screens around the room that has a PowerPoint presentation cycling
• 02:48 through a number of different slides.
• 02:51 If that's the kind of thing that you want to do,
• 02:53 then you would select the third option in here.
• 02:55 Browse at a kiosk full screen.
• 02:57 Now it's worth noting for things like that,
• 03:00 you need to make sure that your presentation is set up to automatically
• 03:04 move to the next slide on a given time frame.
• 03:07 And I'm going to show you how to do that in a few moments.
• 03:11 In the show options group just there,
• 03:13 you also have a few other settings you can modify.
• 03:15 So you might want to loop your presentation continuously until you press
• 03:19 escape.
• 03:20 So again, this is another option that's really good if you just want your slides
• 03:24 to automatically cycle through.
• 03:27 You don't particularly want them to stop when it reaches the end of
• 03:30 the presentation.
• 03:31 You want it to just loop round and start again.
• 03:34 If that's the case, then make sure you put a tick in this first box.
• 03:38 You can choose to show your slides without any narration or animation.
• 03:43 And if you have keep slides updated, selected, it means that if you've
• 03:46 shared this presentation with anyone else and they're making live updates.
• 03:51 You'll be able to see those updates in your presentation.
• 03:54 Underneath there, I have some options for pen color and laser pointer color.
• 03:59 And these are going to come into play when we take a look at Presenter View.
• 04:03 So let's hold fire on those for the moment.
• 04:06 On the right hand side, we can choose exactly which slides we want to show so
• 04:11 I can choose all sides.
• 04:13 I can select a certain range of slides by the slide number, or
• 04:17 I can choose to set up a custom show.
• 04:20 And the custom show is where you can basically determine which size you want to
• 04:25 include in your slideshow.
• 04:27 In the next group, we have how our slides are going to advance, so
• 04:31 you could choose to advance your slides manually.
• 04:34 Now if you choose this option, it requires you to be near your presentation,
• 04:39 clicking your mouse button or pressing the arrow key to advance the slides on.
• 04:43 Your alternative option here is to use timings.
• 04:47 And again, this is something I'm going to show you in a few moments.
• 04:50 And finally at the bottom,
• 04:51 you can choose which monitor you want to run your slideshow on.
• 04:54 So this is suitable for people who maybe have multiple monitors.
• 04:58 So definitely worth jumping in there and
• 05:01 checking out your slideshow settings before you present your slides.

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