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Practice your presentation with rehearse timings
You can practice your presentation and record the
amount of time each slide needs when you use
Rehearse Timings. For example, if you are preparing
to give a presentation where your time is limited,
you can practice delivering your presentation so that
you know whether you are spending too much time
on one slide or not enough on another. Instead of
using a stopwatch to manually record the timings,
PowerPoint can do the work for you.
When you use Rehearse Timings, PowerPoint displays
your presentation in Slide Show mode, and the
Rehearsal toolbar appears. Every time you advance
to the next slide, PowerPoint automatically records
the time you spent on the previous slide. Timings
appear beneath each slide in Slide Sorter view.
Rehearse Timings is also a good way to assign times
to slides that you use in unattended presentations. For
example, if you create a kiosk presentation, slides in
the presentation advance using the timings set when
you use Rehearse Timings.
1 Click the Slide Show tab.
2 Click Rehearse Timings.
The slide show begins and the
Rehearsal toolbar appears.
3 Go through the slide points and
explanations exactly as you
would during an actual
presentation.
4 Click the Next icon to advance to
the next slide.
5 Repeat Steps 3 and 4 for all of
the slides in your presentation.
After the last slide
in the presentation,
the Microsoft Office
PowerPoint dialog box
appears, asking if you
want to keep the slide
timing for future use.
6 Click Yes.
The presentation appears in Slide Sorter
view with the slide timings noted under
each slide.
Try This!
If you are interrupted while rehearsing a presentation,
you can temporarily suspend the rehearsal. To do
this, click the Pause button ( ) on the Rehearsal
toolbar. PowerPoint stops the timings. When you are
ready to continue rehearsing, click the Pause button
again to resume the timings.
Change It!
You can manually change slide timings for a slide.
Click the slide for which you want to change the
timing, and then click Animations. Click the
Automatically After check box ( changes to )
and then use the associated text box or spin button
to enter the number of seconds you want to use for
the slide.