Timing a Presentation

Quite often, your slide presentation is limited to a specific length of time. Unfortunately, the allotted time might expire before you get through your entire presentation. To avoid delivering an incomplete show, rehearse your presentation and record the length of time it takes to display each slide. Then, when you’ve completed your rehearsal within the allotted time, you can apply that timing to your presentation and have each slide advance automatically so that your show will end exactly on time.

Time the Presentation

  1. On the Slide Show tab, with your presentation complete and your notes or script in hand, click the Rehearse Timings button to start the slide show and to begin recording the timing.

  2. Rehearse the presentation of each slide, noting the elapsed time for each slide and the elapsed time for the entire presentation.

  3. If you encountered a problem during the presentation of a slide, click the Repeat button to restart the timing for that slide.

  4. If you need to suspend your rehearsal, click the Pause button. Click the button again to resume the rehearsal. Continue rehearsing the presentation until you’ve reached the end of the show.

  5. When you’ve completed the slide show, and if the total time for the rehearsal was within the allocated time, click Yes to keep the recorded timing. Otherwise, click No, and keep repeating steps 1 through 5.

  6. With the Use Rehearsed Timings check box selected, start the slide show from the beginning, and make sure that the timing for the display of the slides is correct.

    Time the Presentation
    Time the Presentation
    Time the Presentation

Tip

Tip

To pause a timed presentation, right-click in the slide show, and choose Pause from the shortcut menu. To resume the timed presentation, right-click again, and choose Resume.

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