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. But whatever your reason for needing a presentation loop, PowerPoint makes it very easy to do. This article will teach you how, and provide some extra automation tips.

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:

1. Open up your presentation in PowerPoint and switch to the “Slide Show” tab.
2. In the “Set Up” group, click the “Set Up Show” option.
3. A new “Set Up Show” window will open. Under the “Show Options” group, check the “Loop continuously until ‘Esc’” option.
4. Ensure that the “Using timings, if present” option under the “Advance Slides” group is selected.
5. Click “OK” to save the changes.

Next, you’ll have to set up the automatic timings for your slides. To do this:

1. Select all your slides in the “Outline” window on the left side of the screen. To do this, click the first slide, then press the Shift key and click on the final slide..
2. Move to the “Transitions” tab.
3. In the “Timing” group on the right side of the tab, uncheck the “On Mouse Click” option under the “Advance” tab.
4. Check the “After” option and change the transition time for the selected slides in the box next to it. The times will be measured in minutes, seconds, and split seconds.

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 without narration – If your presentation has narration that you don’t want played while the slide show is looping, choose this option.
• Show without animation – If your razzle dazzle animations are a little bit too distracting, or you just want to keep things simple, this option will disable all slide animations. This includes slide transitions and effects applied to individual objects within a slide.
• Disable hardware graphics acceleration – There are times when the demands of a presentation on your graphics hardware can cause performance issues and crashes – especially when the presentation uses tons of special effects. If this happens frequently with your slide show, disabling the graphics acceleration on your PC by checking this box will often resolve the issue.
• Pen and laser pointer color – These two options are more cosmetic than anything else, but hey, maybe you’re getting bored of red.

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:

1. Select the “Custom Slide Show” option in the “Slide Show” tab.
2. In the window that pops up, click the “New” button.
3. Mark the slides that you want to include in your custom presentation, and then click the “Add” button to place them in a custom list.
4. Arrange the order of the slides with the “Up”, “Down”, and “Remove” buttons.
5. When you’re happy with the order, check the Custom Slide Show name at the top of the window and click “OK”.

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:

• Presented by a speaker – This option provides a full screen treatment, with external monitor preference and “Pen Color” enabled. Looping is automatically disabled.
• Browsed by an individual – Offers a simple windowed view with looping enabled.
• Browsed at a kiosk – A full screen, external monitor view, with looping checked automatically.

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