Typically, presenters use mouse clicks, keys from a keyboard, or a remote to switch slides in PowerPoint. However, if you have your presentation well-timed or have to account for every second in a presentation due to time constraints, you should make sure that your slides are well-timed. This also applies if you want to run a slideshow in a kiosk or loop through the slides continuously during the break of an event.
Fortunately, PowerPoint comes with a Duration feature that will help you add a specific time duration to each of the presentation slides and then turn your presentation into a slideshow that automatically advances the slides and pauses for a specific number of seconds on each slide. In this tutorial, we will show you how to set a time duration to switch slides in PowerPoint. For this post, we will be using the Financial PowerPoint Template.
Select Your Slides from Slides Pane
First, click the slide preview for the slide you wish to set time for. In case you want all your slides to switch according to a set time limit (e.g. 10 seconds), select one slide and hit CTRL+A to select all slides.
In case you want to set a different time for each slide, you will have to select each slide one by one and follow the steps shown below.
Select a Time Duration for Your Slides from the Transitions Tab
From the Transitions tab, go to ‘After’ and add a time duration after which you wish to switch your slide(s). Also make sure that ‘On Mouse Click’ is unchecked.
The process for switching slides is similar in various versions across PowerPoint and while we are demonstrating this method using PowerPoint 2013, you will find similar options in older versions (e.g. PowerPoint 2010).
For a Single slide: For a single slide, select the respective slide from the Preview pane and add a time duration for switching the slide.
For Multiple Slides: To apply the same time duration to multiple slides, select the slides from the Preview pane using CTRL+Mouse Click, go to the Transitions tab and set a time to switch them. As mentioned earlier, you can also select all slides by clicking a single slide preview, followed by CTRL+A.
In case you have applied slide transitions, you can also set the length of the transitions using the ‘Duration’ option from the same section.
Once you have followed the aforementioned steps, switch to Slide Show mode and your slides will switch according to the set time duration.
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