Managing Presentations
Delivering and distributing
Managing presentations covers slide show settings, custom shows, hyperlinks and action buttons, rehearsal timings, presenter view, printing and export. Know Set Up Show options: presented by a speaker, browsed by an individual, or at a kiosk; loop continuously; show without narration or animation. Hide slides rather than delete them when they may be needed later. Custom slide shows present a subset without changing the file’s slide order. Hyperlinks can target a slide, file, or web page; action buttons are shapes with built-in navigation. Print layouts include slides, handouts, notes pages and outline.
Traps
Transitions apply to slides; animations apply to objects. Hiding a slide does not remove it from the deck. Rehearse timings records slide durations. Exporting to PDF fixes layout but loses animation. Password protection and Mark as Final are different: Mark as Final discourages editing but does not secure the file. Check fonts if the deck will open on another machine.
Worked example
For a self-running kiosk, open Slide Show > Set Up Show, choose “Browsed at a kiosk,” tick “Loop continuously until Esc,” set advance timings on the Transitions tab, then test with F5 from the first slide.