Tip #3388 - A Little Rehearsal
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A
Little Rehearsal
Do you use MS PowerPoint
presentations that are set to advance automatically?
Ever find yourself
frustrated as you try to guess just how many seconds to display each slide?
I mean, if you are sitting there looking at this...
...and wondering
how many seconds to enter into the field (found with Slide Transition
information), then maybe, you simply need to consider rehearsing.
PowerPoint has a feature
that will let you set the timings for slide advancement while actually
going through the slideshow. I've found that I really love this method
for initial time settings and that I have to make very few changes from
there.
So, if you're interested
in this alternative method, read on!
To do a presentation
rehearsal and set slide advancement timings, we need to go to the Slide
Show menu, Rehearse Timings choice.
Your slide show will
begin with this toolbar visible:
In the center, you'll
see the clock counting the current time for the displayed slide. When
you click to advance the slide, the time will be recorded and start over
for the next slide.
It continues on this
way until you either give up with the Esc key or finish
setting the timing for each slide in the show.
Need to "tweak"
the timings some more?
You can either work
on each one manually or run the rehearsal again, with one benefit. If
you've got a slide with a good timing, you can press the O key
to skip that slide without changing its timing.
That's it. Go through
and truly rehearse your presentation with this feature running and the
timing will take care of itself!
~ April
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