PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual

Presenting Your Slideshow

The control you have when it comes time to present your slideshow depends on how you've chosen to set up your slideshow: as full-screen, browser, or kiosk mode (see Section 7.1.1).

• Full-screen mode. Right-clicking your mouse while you're running a slideshow in full-screen mode kicks up a context menu that lets you choose how to present your slideshow, as you can see in Figure 7-10. But most folks find it quicker (and less distracting to the audience) to use the keyboard shortcuts described in Table 7-1. In addition, when you run a slideshow in full-screen mode, you see the ghosted controls shown back in Figure 7-2, and you can control your presentation with a remove control.

  Table 7-1. Key Strokes for Navigating Your Slideshow

  Table 7-1. 

  To Do This	Press This
  Go forward one slide	Enter, Space, Page Down, N, click, right-arrow, down-arrow
  Back up one slide	Backspace, Page Up, P, left-arrow, up-arrow
  Jump directly to a specific slide, even if it's hidden (Section 7.1.2)	Type the slide number and then press Enter, or right-click the slide and, from the menu that appears, click the title of the slide you want to go to
  Scroll back and forth through slides quickly	Roll the wheel on your mouse
  Black out the presentation	B or . (period)
  White out the presentation	W or , (comma)
  End the slideshow	Esc or Ctrl+Break
  Hide the cursor (pointer)	= (A to show pointer again)
  Start drawing (annotating) electronically on a slide using your mouse or ...