Slides Not Advancing Automatically

Question

I've successfully completed multiple PowerPoint presentations with voice-over and converted to video using the technique referenced below, but this current one is not working.  I'm using PowerPoint 365 on Windows 10 and I'm current on software updates.

I'm recording voice-over individually on each slide using Insert > Audio.  I then use Slide Show > Rehearse Timings, to set the timing on each slide.  Transitions > Timing > Advance Slide > "On Mouse Click" is NOT checked and "After" IS checked.  The box next to After displays the recorded timing on the slide.  Set Up Slide Show > Show Type: I've tried both "Presented by a Speaker (Full Screen)" and "Browsed by a Kiosk (Full Screen)" with no positive result.  Set Up Slide Show > Advance Slides: "Using timings, if present" IS checked.

Here is what is happening:

1. When I start the show, the audio plays on the first slide but the slide does not advance per the set timing.  Clicking my mouse has no effect but wait about a minute and it will advance automatically.
2. Same thing on the second slide but it takes about 1.5 minutes to advance automatically.
3. Slides 3 thru 6 are all one slide in a manual presentation, opening with one graphic present on the slide and three additional graphics subsequently animated in, but to record voice individually with each animation, the slides have to be duplicated into four slides, each with a new graphic animated into the slide as they transition so with each new slide transition, there is a .5 sec delay, then the graphic animates onto the slide.
4. This is the odd part; the transitions and animations occur automatically as established by the slide timing but then when I get to slide 7, where there is no animation, I get the same failure to auto-advance.

I've scoured the web and found only one potentially significant post on BrainShark at https://brainshark.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003692912-Slides-Not-Automatically-Advancing, but cannot locate the tabs and menu items they reference so I can only assume they are referring to a different version of PP.

Any and all guidance would be appreciated.

Answer 1

It looks like you are not the original poster but are hijacking the thread. This will not get you an answer. Start a new thread and explain exactly what YOUR problem is.

Answer 2

I spoke with someone in Microsoft support and we determined there was potentially a corrup file so I'm going to begin the presentation development over again from scratch.

Answer 3

I think you will find that most of the sound files have a long quiet section at the end. The transition will wait for this to play (silently)

Look at the sound in the Trim editor, the area with the arrow is just silence for nearly a minute. Use the trim tool to remove the blank section and it should work (I did a couple of slides to confirm)

http://www.pptalchemy.co.uk/Downloads/Consumer Sales Pres_Video Setup.pptx