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Rehearse timings for a slide showjthen press F5 or click Slide Show > From Beginning to start the course. In the message bar, click Enable Editing,

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Press F5 to start, Esc to stop51234When you want to record a running time for each slide, use the Rehearse Timings feature.This enables you to run through your presentation in Slide Show view and record the time each slide takes.Then, use the timings to run the show automatically, either to help you rehearse or for a self-running show.To record slide timings: When youre ready to run through your show, click the Slide Show tab > Rehearse Timings.PowerPoint opens Slide Show view and begins recording a time for the first slide.On the Recording toolbar, look here for the elapsed time on the current slide.To move the toolbar, drag it to a preferred position.Rehearse your points for the slide, and when youre ready,click Nextor use whichever method you preferto advance to the next slide.The clock starts fresh for the next slide. But note that the total time for the show appears here and keeps advancing.If you need to pause the clock, click Pause. And when youre ready, click Resume Recording.To reset the clock for the slide, click Repeat, and, when youre ready, click Resume Recording.To interrupt the recording, click the X on the toolbar.Talk through the slide show and keep advancing to your last slide.On your last slide, when you click to advance, you see this message, which shows you the total time for the show, here,and asks whether you want to save the timings. Lets click Yes.Now, when you click From Beginning to review the show, the slides advance according to the recorded times,and you can focus on rehearsing the presentation, refining your points for each slide.If you want to turn off the slide timings, on the Slide Show tab, uncheck Use Timings.To clear the timings completely, click the arrow next to Record Slide Show, point to Clear,and click Clear Timings on All Slides.Up next: Edit slide timings.51234Course summaryHelp