Presenting Slide Show

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Once your slide show is completed, you will need to learn how to present it to an audience. PowerPoint offers several tools and features that can assist you in making your presentation smooth, engaging and professional.

In this lesson, you will learn how to play a slide show and advance through the slides. In addition, you will learn about various presentation options like using a highlighter to mark slides or how to set your slide show to play on a continuous loop.

Presenting Slide Show

 

To Start Slide Show:

1. Select the Slide Show tab.
2. Click the From Beginning command in the Start Slide Show group to start the slide show with the first slide.

Starting Slide Show

You can also start the slide show from the slide you prefer by selecting the slide and clicking on From Current Slide from the Start Slide Show group. This option is convenient if you only want to view or present certain slides.

Another option for starting the slide show is to select Slide Show view at the bottom of the window.

Starting Slide Show view option

To Advance and Reverse Slides:

1. Hover your mouse over the bottom right of the screen. A menu will appear.
2. Click on the right arrow to advance slides or click on the left arrow to reverse slides.

Advance or reverse slides 

You may also use the arrow keys on your keyboard to advance and reverse slides.

To Stop or End Slide Show:

To end slide show, hover and select the menu box options command and click End Show. You can also press the "Esc" key at the top left of your keyboard to end show. 

Ending slide show