Microsoft KB Archive/189935

= PPT97: Automatic Timings Don't Work in Playlist Slide Show =

Article ID: 189935

Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q189935





SYMPTOMS
Even though you selected the Use Automatic Timings option in PowerPoint Viewer, your slides do not advance automatically when you use a playlist to view multiple presentations.



RESOLUTION
If you selected the Use Automatic Timings check box in the PowerPoint Viewer and your slides do not advance automatically, set the timing for each presentation in the playlist. To do this, follow these steps:  Open a presentation from your playlist in PowerPoint and then follow these steps:  On the View menu, click Slide Sorter. On the Slide Show menu, click Select All.

NOTE: If you want different slides to appear on screen for different lengths of time, you can select each slide individually (instead of using Select All) and give each slide its own slide timing. On the Tools menu, click Slide Transition. Select Advance Automatically After  Seconds and enter a number between 0 and 86399. Click Apply or Apply To All.</li> On the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.</li> Under Advance slides, select Using Timings, if present.</li> Click OK to run the slide show with automatic timings.</li> On the File menu, click Save.</li> On the File menu, click Close.</li> Repeat steps a through j for each presentation in your playlist.</li></ol> </li> Start PowerPoint Viewer.</li> Select your playlist file.</li> Viewer follows the settings saved in the presentation. The default setting in PowerPoint is Using Timings, if present.</li> Click Show.</li></ol>

Automatic timings now work using a playlist in PowerPoint Viewer.

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