Steps to Make a Presentation Loop in PowerPoint
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PowerPoint is a fantastic tool for presenting your ideas in exciting ways. Sometimes though, you can’t run a slide show yourself and need the program to do it for you. Maybe you’re running a photo slide show in the background at a party, or leaving information to loop at a convention table. Whatever your reason for needing a presentation loop in PowerPoint, the program makes it easy to do.
Create Your Looping Slide Show
A looping slide show is a hassle-free (and hands off) way to run a presentation. Each slide will display for a set time before moving onto the next. Once the presentation runs out of slides, PowerPoint will start the slide show from the beginning again. Setting your slide show up to loop is simple:
Next, you’ll have to set up the automatic timings for your slides. To do this:
To change the timing for individual slides, select them from the “Outline” window and change their timings in the same way (in the “Timing” group of the “Transitions” tab).
Once the timings are set up, your presentation should now run automatically. But there are a few other tips and tricks to spice up your slide show automation.
Exploring the Other Slide Show Setup Options
You’ll find a bunch of useful options in the “Set Up Slide Show” option under the “Slide Show” tab. Let’s explore what some of these can add to your presentation:
Show Options
Besides the option to loop your slides continuously, you can also:
Show Slides
Sometimes you don’t need (or want to) show all the slides in your presentation to your audience. You can hide slides manually in the Outline window by right-clicking a slide and selecting “Hide Slide” from the context menu. But the “Show Slides” group also gives you the chance to play a selection of consecutive slides by using the “From” option, or to create a custom slide show.
To create a custom show:
You’ll now be able to choose this presentation when you open the “Slide Show Set Up” window.
Multiple Monitors
Here, you can choose which screen you want to present on if you’re using multiple monitors, and the resolution to use. Check the box to enable “Presenter View” whenever possible.
Show Type
Setting up a presentation manually might be daunting to some users. That’s why PowerPoint offers a selection of presets under this group:
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Last updated on 02 November, 2024
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