At 10:19 09/04/2009 -0700, Brewster Gillett wrote:
When you begin in the "new presentation" mode, Screen Three of the
Wizard offers you the opportunity to apply effects to transitions,
alter their speeds, choose manual or auto advance, and so on. When
you click the "Automatic" check-button, the window illuminates a
section which offers:
Duration of page with a window allowing time settings
Duration of pause with a window allowing time settings
The pause here is that between presentations, not between individual
slides, in fact: if you choose Automatic, the entire presentation is
repeated after this pause.
All well and good so far. But two downstream artifacts are getting
seriously in the way of the tweaking.
Firstly, though I set the duration of page to 120 seconds, when I
run the slide show it is *not* proceeding to the next slide after
the 120 seconds. And no, that Window 3 did *not* have an "Apply" box:-)
I don't know what you are doing wrong here: this *does* work for me -
at least, when I leave the default ten-second setting.
Secondly, and a good deal more disconcerting, is that when I go back
to experiment around with changed "duration of page" timings, I
naturally click "SLIDE SHOW/SLIDE SHOW SETTINGS", ...
Actually, that may not be as natural as you hope. Those settings are
for the complete slide show, whereas you need a setting for the
duration of a single slide.
... and am presented with a dropdown that looks an awfully lot like
Window 3 of the Setup Wizard. But instead of displaying, and
appropriately labeling, the two settable timing parameters as does
the Wizard, it shows just one timing box, and the cursor-over popup
identifies it as the pause setting, not the "duration of page" setting.
Again, that is the pause between complete slide shows.
Where is the "duration of page ?
Click on Slide Transition in the Tasks panel on the right (or use
Slide Show | Slide Transition...). Under "Advance slide" at the
bottom, select "Automatically after" and change the individual slide
duration there. Note that there is an Apply to All Slides button if
that is what you need.
Can anyone explain what's going on here?
I trust I have done something in that direction.
Brian Barker
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