Learn about Slide Show view in PowerPoint Online. This is the view that lets you show your slides in full-screen view to the audience.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint Online
OS: Windows and Mac
Have you created all your slides in PowerPoint Online, and now you want to show it in front of an audience? Or you just want to use this slide deck in a webinar, or even see them yourself to understand how they look in full-screen view? In that case, the view that plays your presentation in full-screen mode is Slide Show view, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Slide Show view
To access Slide Show view in PowerPoint Online, you can choose any of these options:
To exit Slide Show view, choose any of these options:
Remember that Slide Show view is purely a display view and no editing can be done on slides at this point of time. However, Slide Show view has some navigation and annotation options. If you hover your cursor over the bottom left area of the slide, you'll find four watermarked navigation icons that you can see in Figure 5.
Figure 5: Navigation icons within Slide Show view
These icons are explained below, as marked in Figure 5, above:
Click this icon to navigate to the previous slide (or press the P or Left Arrow keys).
Click this icon to navigate to the next slide (or press the N, Right Arrow, or Spacebar keys).
Click this icon to end the Slide Show.
During Slide Show, consecutive slides are shown one after the other. But you can change this pattern and access a particular slide in between, provided you know the number of that slide. Follow these steps to know more:
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