Slide Advances after Long Period

[JenC]

I have a slide presentation with a few simple custom animations. When I sit
on any slide for a long period of time (which often happens when discussions
take place during a meeting), it automatically "clicks" itself - either the
next animation plays, or it advances to the next slide, without my doing
anything.

Anyone know if this is a setting somewhere that I can turn off? Or is there
something weird going on with my presentation?

 

[David Marcovitz]

I have a slide presentation with a few simple custom animations. When I sit
on any slide for a long period of time (which often happens when discussions
take place during a meeting), it automatically "clicks" itself - either the
next animation plays, or it advances to the next slide, without my doing
anything.

Anyone know if this is a setting somewhere that I can turn off? Or is there
something weird going on with my presentation?

What version of PowerPoint are you using? Also, what hardware are you
using. For example, do you have some kind of wireless mouse or keyboard
that could send the erroneous click? There are animation settings and
transition settings to automatically advance. These settings are
"overridden" by a mouse click so if you click early, it will go to the
next animation or slide, but you would have had to set the animation
and/or transition to advance automatically. Look in the timings of your
custom animations to see if they are set to go "after previous" with
possibly a long time in the timing box.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Associate Professor, Loyola University Maryland

 

[Rick Altman]

Jen, I'd like to see one of these decks. If you are so inclined, upload one
of them to

http://www.betterpresenting.com/ftp

and just indicate in the Notes field which slide is misbehaving...