From the course: PowerPoint: Creating a Self-Running, Interactive Presentation

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Add and rehearse timings

Add and rehearse timings

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Add and rehearse timings

- [Instructor] So we previewed our presentation. We know that many of the slides will require automatic timings. A certain amount of time for the viewer to read the text and look at the pictures before it moves on automatically to the next slide. There are a handful of slides however in our presentation. Where the viewer will be required to click something. For example if we go over here to slide five and look at the bottom, we have buttons here. So in this case, we wouldn't want any slide timings being used, we want to wait for the viewer to interact. Also, if you were following along in the previous movie, we saw that there was a video and the video itself took up a certain amount of time before the transition or timings kicked in. So if we go to slide eight over here for example, and look at that video, you can see when you click it, that it's selected, there's a play button that we can click to play, and we can see the timings here as well. It's quite a long video. In fact, we…

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