Mod 6 Presentations Slideshow

View a Slide Show

Delivering a Presentation

Start a slide show on any slide.

What is a Slide Show? Rather than printing out your presentation, you may want to run it as an electronic slide show on your computer.This means that each slide in your presentation, along with its text, art, and graphics, takes up the whole screen. All other screen elements are hidden.

To start a slide show - Open your presentation and click the Slide Show icon or select the Slide Show command from the View menu.

To start a slide show on a specific slide - Display the slide on screen that you wish to start the presentation with (i.e. in Normal Mode or Slide View Mode). Click the Slide Show icon to start the presentation.

Use on-screen navigation tools.

To display the slide show shortcuts - When the slide show is running press the F1 key to display a list of shortcuts.


To move to the next slide - Use any of the following options:Left Mouse ClickNSpace BarRight ArrowDown ArrowEnter Page DownRight Click - Select from Pop-up Menu

To move to a previous slide - Use any of the following options:BackspacePLeft ArrowUp ArrowPage UpRight Click - Select from Pop-up Menu

To return to the first slide - Press both mouse buttons for 2 Seconds.

To blank the screen to black - Press B once to apply. Press B once more to remove.

To blank a screen to white · Press W once to apply.· Press W once more to remove.

To exit a screen show - Use any of the following options:EscCtrl+Break“-“

The slide show "right click menu" - Right clicking within the slide show will display the following pop-up menu, allowing you to navigate through the presentation.


Hide slides.

To hide slides in a slide show - Select the slide(s) you wish to hide. Select Hide Slide from the Slide Show menu, or click on the Hide Slide icon on the Slide Sorter toolbar if you are working in Slide Sorter view.· The slide will be hidden during a slide show. In Slide Sorter view an icon appears below the slide, which contains the slide number with a line through it, to indicate that it is hidden. During a slide show, if you wish to display a hidden slide right-click on the preceding slide to display the shortcut menu, select Go and then Hidden Slide or simply press the H key.

To see which slides are formatted as hidden - Switch to Slide Sorter view and the hidden slide(s) will be indicated as illustrated below.

To display a hidden slide during a slide show · Within the slide show right-click on the slide that precedes the slide that is hidden. Click on the Go command, and then click on the hidden slide to display it.