Timing of Presentation

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Caroline H

Hi there

I am using PowerPoint XP and am designing a presentation that is to be
displayed on a LCD screen. It needs to be playing constantly (looping) for
about six hours. My questions are:

1. How do I loop the presentation? and
2. Can I time it or the computer so it turns itself off (or goes into
standby mode) after so many hours, or at a certain time?

Would much appreciate your urgent assistance all you PowerPoint gurus.

Cheers
Caroline
 
Caroline said:
Hi there

I am using PowerPoint XP and am designing a presentation that is to be
displayed on a LCD screen. It needs to be playing constantly (looping) for
about six hours. My questions are:

1. How do I loop the presentation? and
Click to expand...

Slide Show/Set Up Show and Kiosk Mode will do that for you.
2. Can I time it or the computer so it turns itself off (or goes into
standby mode) after so many hours, or at a certain time?
Click to expand...

Maybe check into Tushar's PPT auto schedule tutorial.
http://www.tushar-mehta.com
 
Hello Caroline,

Without additional programming (add-in or VBA, for example) a looping
continuosly presentation will only stop when someone interacts with the
slide show (hits the ESC key). PowerPoint doesn't have any built-in concept
of scheduling the begin and end time of a looping slide show.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have some suggestions about
kinds of scheduling of slide shows or options for how an slide show
(unattended or otherwise) might respond to external events <such as a
specific, or offset/delta in, date/time> (without having to resort to VBA
or add-ins so that it also works in the PowerPoint Viewer), don't forget to
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