I have recently taken over maintaining a rolling powerpoint presentation
which contains many hyperlinks and slide transitions and custom animations,
etc. This presentation is used in the foyer of a school where parents can
use it interactively on a plasma screen, however, when they are finished,
they simply walk away leaving the presentation on any random slide. My
dilemma therefore is to ensure that a slide "times out" and returns to the
first slide instead of remaining on screen. Some of the slides loop between
two or three slides therefore a slide transition already exists. Please
could someone help me? Thank you.

Go to the Slide Show menu and choose Set Up Show. Check the box for
Browsed at a Kiosk. This will do what you want. However, the feature to
go back to the first slide automatically has been unreliable in some
older versions of PowerPoint. Additionally, Kiosk mode disables use of
the keyboard and mouse, except for clicking on hyperlinks and buttons,
so you need to set all your navigation to be automatic, via slide
transitions, or through buttons and hyperlinks.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

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> I have recently taken over maintaining a rolling powerpoint
> presentation which contains many hyperlinks and slide transitions and
> custom animations, etc. This presentation is used in the foyer of a
> school where parents can use it interactively on a plasma screen,
> however, when they are finished, they simply walk away leaving the
> presentation on any random slide. My dilemma therefore is to ensure
> that a slide "times out" and returns to the first slide instead of
> remaining on screen. Some of the slides loop between two or three
> slides therefore a slide transition already exists. Please could
> someone help me? Thank you.
>