I'm preparing for an Ignite talk and need to create a presentation in which each slide advances automatically after 15 seconds.
I'm using PowerPoint 2007 and there is a setting that supposedly does exactly this (Advance Slide Automatically After: ) but it does not work at all. On every slide, I type 15 into the textbox and it shows 00:15. But when I click Slide Show / From Beginning or Slide Show / From Current Slide it absolutely does not work.
Any suggestions? Does anyone know of a PowerPoint template that has automatic advancing built in?
Best Answer
Well, judging by your question, you have Office 2007.
Try to follow these steps:
Make sure that you do everything exactly as described. If it still won't work, then it is some kind of bug or configuration problem.
ED2: OK, some people had the same problem with powerpoint before. Here's one solution. It's for PPT2003, but from what I've gathered "this is not a bug, it's a feature" :) So chances are that it's the same in next versions.
ED3: Yep, it seems that this is actually your problem. I've reproduced it on my presentation. If you have a single audio track you want to play across all slides, then this is what you have to do:
If this is not your case (you have multiple audio files, or something else is different), then we'll try to find some other solution.
Hope that helps.