Create a Looping Intro
Looping Introduction
As your audience enters the room animation at the beginning of your presentation can be helpful. You will be able to stop it and begin your presentation by following the techniques presented to you in this training session.
Using a looped presentation in which all slides except your intro are hidden, allows your audience to see only the introduction. Using a button link will allow you to start your main presentation even though the slide is hidden.
Create Welcome Slides
Create a few welcoming slides with a message prior to your main presentation and Save the presentation.
From the Slides pane, select all the slides (click on the first slide, press and hold down the shift key and click on the last slide)
From the Transitions tab:
Within the Transition to This Slide group, select a slide transition
Within the Timing group, Uncheck On Mouse Click, select After and enter seconds (3-4 works well)
From Slide Show tab, within the Set Up group, click on Set Up Slide Show command.
Within the Set Up Show dialog box, select Loop continuously until ‘ESC’.
Within the Advance Slides section Use timings, if present option is selected and click on OK.
From the Insert tab, within the Illustrations group, select Shapes and select a blank Action Button. Click, hold, drag and draw a rectangle in the lower right corner of the first slide.
From the Action Settings dialog box, check Hyperlink to and select Slide. From the Hyperlink to Slide dialog box, navigate to the first slide of your main presentation and click OK twice.
With the shape selected, right click and select Format Shape. From the Format Shape dialog box, within the Fill section, drag the Transparency slide to 100% and within the Line Color Section, select No Line and click on Close.
Copy and Paste the button onto the other two slides of your introduction, allowing you to move to main presentation from any slide of the intro.
To achieve the looping effect, from the Slides Pane, select all of the slides except the intro slides. From the Slide Show tab, click on the Hide Slide command-hiding all of the main presentation slides. With slides still selected, confirm that the slides are set up to advance On Mouse Click. Select the Transitions tab, within the Timing group.
When you are ready to begin your presentation click on the bottom right corner of any slides in the intro and it will move to the first slide of the main presentation.
Consider inserting an end slide at the end of your presentation as a warning sign that you are at the end of the presentation and you don’t click to the intro.