How to Rehearse Timings of Slide Show in Presentation

Rehearse timing can control the time of the presentation accurately. The amount of time you spend on each slide is recorded and you can save those timing to run the show automatically in the future.

Step 1. Click Rehearse Timings icon in the Slide Show tab to rehearse the show.

Figure 1 The Rehearse Timings icon

Step 2. Start a full-screen slide show and a Rehearsal toolbar will appear on the top left. The time in the middle of the toolbar represents the timing for the current slide and the time on the right represents the timing for the entire presentation, shown as below:

Figure 2 The Rehearsal toolbar

1. Click the Next button to complete the rehearsal time for the current slide and to begin the timing for the next slide. You can also apply the feature by clicking the slide.

2. Click the Pause button to pause the timing of the current slide.

3. Click the Repeat button to reset the current slide timings.

Step 3. When the slide show is over, the system will prompt you on whether to keep the rehearsal timing or not. Click Yes button to set the slides to switch at the rehearsed times.

Figure 3 Rehearsal time prompt