Slides Don’t Automatically Advance

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 and the slide advances based on set timing.
2. The second slide audio plays but this slide does not advance.  Clicking my mouse has no effect but wait about 90 seconds and it will 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 on these slides, but then when I get to slide 7, where there is no animation, I get the same failure to auto-advance.

If you want to download the presentation deck from my Google Drive folder, here is the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1L7R2KKvykDgQK4zzJ3MaGeDU6s0Sdkfl

It’s a consumer sales presentation so nothing confidential included.

Any and all guidance would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Larry

I have downloaded your slides, and Under setup Slideshow - select Browse by individual and run the slide show. It works. See the picture.

Answer 2

Thanks for your input but I changed the settings as you suggested and it did not alter the performance of the deck.  As I said in my original description of the problem, I have created multiple slide shows previously using this process with no problems and the Set Up Show > Show Type was set at "Presented by a Speaker".  Your success in getting the show to run properly on your computer makes me wonder if my problem is computer centric.  It seems highly unlikely but I'll test the deck on other computers and let you know if performance changes.

Answer 3

OK, I used a friends computer, Windows 10 with current version of Office 365, to test the presentation and had the exact same problem so it's not my computer.