Here are some tips that can help you in creating Custom Slide Shows in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2011 for Mac
OS: Mac OS X
Custom Shows can add a completely different dimension to your presentations, the same slides can be used for multiple Custom Shows and can help you decide what you want to show to any given audience. Creating and using Custom Shows is an advanced use of PowerPoint, here are some tips that will help you get more from this amazing feature in PowerPoint 2011:
What most of us do not realize is that the same slides can be used more than once in a Custom Show. This is great if you want the
same slide to be shown multiple times in your
Slide Show. Quick, which is the slide that can be
repeated often in a presentation? Yes, the Agenda slide! Maybe you want your Agenda slide to show once after each topic on the agenda
is covered. You can also repeat the slides other than the Agenda slide, maybe you want the same slide at the beginning and the
end of the show?
So how do you add the same slide more than once? This is easy - just follow these steps:
After creating a Custom Show, whenever you want to play your Custom Show, you play it via Custom Slide Show button in the Slide Show tab of the Ribbon. By chance if you forget that part and just play your presentation as usual by pressing the F5 Function key, then you will end up playing all slides!
To solve this problem, you can make your Custom Show the default show. This way you just play your slides using PowerPoint's
buttons and keyboard shortcuts for playing slides, and your Custom Show plays! To learn how to set your Custom Show as your default
show, refer to the second half of our
Playing Custom Shows in PowerPoint 2011 tutorial.
And remember to change the default back from the Custom show to All (within the
Set Up Show dialog box as explained in our
Playing Custom Shows in PowerPoint 2011 tutorial). Otherwise you
may open a deck a month or two later and wonder why only 5 of your 20 slides play!
See Also:
Tips for Custom Shows in PowerPoint in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Tips for Custom Shows in PowerPoint in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
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