Office 2013 In Depth

Creating a Self-Running Presentation

A self-running presentation means different things to different people. For example, you might want to create a self-running slide show that advances each slide after a specified period. However, you plan to provide the narration that accompanies the slides in person. You are configuring the slides with timings because you want to concentrate on your speech instead of changing the slides. This scenario requires that you spend time practicing the presentation so that the slides don’t get ahead of you or you don’t get ahead of your slides as you deliver the narrative.

Another type of self-running presentation is one that runs at a trade show booth or in a kiosk. A live speaker does not accompany this type of ...