Timing a Presentation

Quite often, your slide presentation is limited to a specific length of time. Unfortunately, the allotted time might expire before you get through your entire presentation. To avoid delivering an incomplete show, rehearse your presentation and record the length of time it takes to display each slide. Then, when you’ve completed your rehearsal within the allotted time, you can apply that timing to your presentation and have each slide advance automatically so that your show will end exactly on time.

Time the Presentation

  1. On the Slide Show tab, with your presentation complete and your notes or script in hand, click the Rehearse ...

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