<< Click to Display Table of Contents >> Starting a slide show

To start a slide show, you can use the following commands of the Slide show | Start icon (in the group View):

▪Start the slide show from the first slide:

▪Start the slide show from the current slide:

In the displayed slide show, you can use the space bar or the left mouse button to switch to the next slide. Right-clicking opens a context menu with several functions for interacting with the current slide show. (For more information, see Slide show interaction.)

Have you two displays connected? Use the presenter view!

Tip: If two displays are connected to your device and you start a slide show, it is displayed by default in the "Presenter view".

The Presenter view is a useful tool when running a slide show on a second display, for example, a projector: If it is enabled, the audience sees the normal slide show, while the presenter himself sees useful additional information on his own display – such as his notes on each slide.

You will find this option on the ribbon tab Slide show | group Display | Presenter view.

For more information on this view, see Using the presenter view.

Creating presentations that start automatically ("slide show")

An alternative method for starting a slide show is to double-click on a file in the Presentations slide show file format. Open it directly in Windows Explorer, for example. Even if Presentations is not already running, it then starts automatically, opens the file, plays the slide show immediately, and then ends again.

To create such a file that starts automatically, simply open any Presentations document and save it in the "Presentations slide show" file format. To do so, choose the command File | Save as and select Presentations slide show (*.prsx) under Save as type.

For more information on all supported file formats, see Working with other file formats.