Removing PowerPoint Rehearsed Timings

Ever got annoyed or even had a real bad presentation due to rehearsed timings causing your presentation to automatically advance to the next slide? Well I have so there is the workaround and the real fix. This is tested to work in PowerPoint 2003

Workaround:
Disable advancing slides in a slide show

  1. In the menu bar: “Slide Show” > “Set Up Show…”
  2. In the “Advance slides” section select “Manually”

Real Fix:
Clear the timings completely!

  1. Select all the slides
  2. Right click a slide > “Slide Transition…”
  3. In the “Advance slide” section uncheck “Automatically after”

Source: Making Your Presentation, UWEC

Hope that saves people frustrations in the future

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2 Responses to “Removing PowerPoint Rehearsed Timings”


  1. 1 Corina September 8, 2009 at 18:39

    THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!! :))))))))

    • 2 thewheat September 8, 2009 at 23:36

      @Corina I’m glad it helped you =) Rehearsed PowerPoint Timings actually killed one presentation I did with friends. We were panicking and pressing back alot because we spoke slower than our rehearsed rendition =$


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