Welcome to the tutorial on how to make PowerPoint loop. In a few, simple steps, you can make PowerPoint loop. When would you want PowerPoint repeat slideshow? An example is when you setup a kiosk, for example, to give information about your company. You would place such a kiosk, say at an exhibition, a seminar, workshop, or conference.
When you setup a PowerPoint loop slideshow, it runs by itself from the first to the last slide, rewinds itself, and runs again. You need to press the Esc key to stop the slideshow.
Make sure to set the Advance Slide to Automatically After choice, if you want to run the slideshow without any human intervention. Then, specify the time. That is, how long a slide should be visible before the next slide displays.
Another point you've to know about how to make PowerPoint loop is if the slide advances too slowly or fast, then it will be difficult to create and sustain the user's interest. So, you have to choose a time that's ideal for many users. Further, a design principle for
PowerPoint loop slideshow, and for a regular slideshow, is to reduce the text content on each slide. In place of text, use elements like clip art, diagrams, photos, graphs, and or video, as relevant to a slide content.
What about the background voice narration? It will greatly help deliver the message. Of course, the decision to use voice narration in your presentation depends on the environment in which you place the kiosk with a PowerPoint loop slideshow.
Is it possible to manually control the slide navigation, yet make PowerPoint loop? Yes. You need to set the Advance Slide to On Mouse Click. In a PowerPoint automatic slideshow with such a setting, the presentation advances to the next slide only after the presenter clicks anywhere on the slide. On mouse click on the last slide, PowerPoint automatically loops to the first slide.
Do take a look at this tutorial, which illustrates with an example, on how to make PowerPoint loop.
