ID: Q189935
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Even though you selected the Use Automatic Timings option in PowerPoint Viewer, your slides do not advance automatically when you use a playlist to view multiple presentations.
If you selected the Use Automatic Timings check box in the PowerPoint Viewer and your slides do not advance automatically, set the timing for each presentation in the playlist. To do this, follow these steps:
1. Open a presentation from your playlist in PowerPoint and then follow
these steps:
a. On the View menu, click Slide Sorter.
b. On the Slide Show menu, click Select All.
NOTE: If you want different slides to appear on screen for
different lengths of time, you can select each slide individually
(instead of using Select All) and give each slide its own
slide timing.
c. On the Tools menu, click Slide Transition.
d. Select Advance Automatically After <x> Seconds and enter a number
between 0 and 86399.
e. Click Apply or Apply To All.
f. On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.
g. Under Advance slides, select Using Timings, if present.
h. Click OK to run the slide show with automatic timings.
i. On the File menu, click Save.
j. On the File menu, click Close.
k. Repeat steps a through j for each presentation in your playlist.
3. Select your playlist file.
4. Viewer follows the settings saved in the presentation. The default
setting in PowerPoint is Using Timings, if present.
Automatic timings now work using a playlist in PowerPoint Viewer.
Additional query words: power point powerpt winppt ppt95 ppt97
Keywords : kbusage
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbprbLast Reviewed: November 24, 1998