PowerPoint is recognized as the industry standard tool for presentations and slideshows, and as part of the Microsoft Office suite of applications, the latest version comes with a wealth of useful features and tools. When running a business slideshow, the user has full control over most aspects of the presentation, including how long individual frames are shown for, whether or not they advance automatically, and whether or not the presentation as a whole is set to loop again from the beginning. You can disable automatic looping for individual slides or for the entire presentation.
Change to a different animation Select the effect in the Animations pane, and click a different effect in the ribbon on the Animations tab. Add another animation to the same object First select the text or object on the slide (not in the Animations pane), and then click the additional effect you want to apply. Change the effect properties Select the effect in the Animations pane and make the changes you want under Effect Options. On the navigation pane, select the slide that contains the animation effects that you want to remove. How to select slides in the navigation pane. On the Animations tab, under Animation Options, click Reorder. Under Animation Order, select all the animation effects in the list. Click Delete.
Individual Slides
Step 1
Select the slide you wish to edit from the thumbnail list on the left-hand side of the PowerPoint interface.
Step 2
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Click 'Transitions' on the ribbon menu at the top of the interface to open the tab containing the 'Advance Slide' options, on the right-hand side.
Step 3
Untick the option labelled 'After:' to prevent the slideshow from progressing after a certain time period has passed. If you also wish to disable the ability to advance the slide with a mouse click, untick the 'On Mouse Click' check box. Changes are saved immediately.
Step 1
Click on the 'Slide Show' tab on the ribbon menu at the top of the interface, then click the 'Set Up Slide Show' icon to bring up the associated dialog.
Step 2
Untick the check box marked 'Loop continuously until Esc' under the 'Show options' heading to prevent the presentation from starting again with the first slide after the last one has been displayed.
Step 3
Check the box marked 'Manually' to over-ride any timings associated with any of the slides in the presentation. This is a useful alternative to unticking the 'After:' box on each individual slide. It does not affect the 'On Mouse Click' setting for each slide.
Step 4
Click 'OK' to confirm your choices and to disable the looping feature of the presentation.
Tips
- When preventing individual slides from advancing automatically, you can edit more than one slide at once by holding down the Ctrl key and clicking on specific thumbnails of slides in the list on the left.
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PowerPoint comes as part of the Office Suite for Mac. When using it to create presentations, the option to animate all of the slides simultaneously makes it easy to add transitions and effects automatically. Once you have finished your PowerPoint presentation, you can use this feature to add a visual element to your business presentations. Animations help to alert the audience of a change in the slides by using visual and audio cues to indicate a change in information.
Step 1
Select the 'Transitions' tab in the 'Transitions To This Slide' toolbar.
Step 2
Click on an effect that you want to apply to all of your slides. Select the arrow in the toolbar to view additional effects.
Step 3
Click the 'Effects Options' icon and select an advanced animation to apply to your presentation.
Step 4
Enter the duration of the transition into the 'Duration' selector, and, if desired, choose a sound from the 'Sound' drop-down menu.
Step 5
Click 'All Slides' under the 'Apply To' option.
Tip
- Check the 'On Mouse Click' option to prevent the slideshow from advancing until you have clicked on the slide. Alternatively, click the 'After' option in the Advance Slide section and enter a duration to wait between transitions.
- Each transition has different effect options. After selecting your transition from the 'Transition to This Slide' toolbar, click 'Effect Options' to view available options.