How to Create a Looping Slideshow in PowerPoint
You can easily create a looping slideshow using PowerPoint. A looping slideshow displays each slide automatically for a certain amount of time. Once that time has elapsed, the slide automatically continues to the next slide. Once the slideshow reaches the end, it repeats from the beginning.
- Open your PowerPoint presentation.
- Click the [Slide Show] tab > From the "Set Up" group, click "Set Up Slide Show".
- From the resulting dialogue box, check "Loop continuously until 'Esc'" under the "Show options" section > Click [OK].
- From the "Slides" preview side panel, click your first slide > Press and hold [Shift] and click your last slide. This will select all of your slides.
- Click the [Transitions] tab > From the "Timing" group, uncheck "On Mouse Click" and check "After".
- To adjust the time you would like each slide to display, click the up and down arrows in the "After:" field within the "Timing" group. When your slideshow reaches the last slide, it will automatically loop back to the beginning.
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- To loop a PowerPoint slideshow, you'll need to enable looping in the "Set Up Slide Show" menu.
- Once you set your PowerPoint to loop, it'll start over from the beginning automatically after playing the last slide.
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1. Open the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that you want to loop.
2. With your PowerPoint presentation open, click on the "Slide Show" tab, then click on "Set Up Slide Show."
3. In the pop-up window that appears, click on the box next to "Loop continuously until 'Esc'" so that a small checkmark appears inside the box. Feel free to adjust any other settings in this menu as well. Click "OK" when you're finished.
4. To test whether your PowerPoint can loop successfully, click on the "From Beginning" or "Play From Start" button in the Slide Show tab. Click through the slideshow until you reach the end. When your PowerPoint reaches its final slide, it should start over from the beginning automatically. When you're confident that looping is enabled, and you're ready to close the slide show, press the Esc key.
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How To Loop a PowerPoint: A Step-by-Step Guide
By: Software Advice and Collin Couey on January 17, 2022
Microsoft PowerPoint is a well-known tool for making and delivering presentations. Do you know how to use the looping feature? This feature makes it easy for presenters to move from slide to slide without having to click a mouse or computer key. Setting up and customizing this feature is simple.
In this article, you will learn the following:
What is PowerPoint looping?
How to set up powerpoint looping, how to stop looping on powerpoint presentations.
Typically, a PowerPoint presentation will only move from one slide to the next when prompted. A presenter will have to press the arrow key on the computer keyboard, right-click on the mouse, or press the button on a hand-held presentation remote in order to move to the next slide.
When you loop a PowerPoint, you set the presentation to move from one slide to the next without being prompted. For presenters, this means that you do not need to click the arrow key on the computer or click a mouse.
PowerPoint looping allows you to display each slide automatically for a certain amount of time, which you determine. Once the slide displays for that set time, the next slide automatically displays. After the final slide of the presentation, the slideshow repeats from the beginning.
To set up looping on a PowerPoint presentation, complete the following steps:
- Create your PowerPoint presentation.
- In the main menu of your PowerPoint (along the top of the screen), select “Slide Show.”
- In the menu that pops up at the top of your screen, select “Set Up Slide Show.”
Click “Set Up Slide Show” to begin customizing your presentation’s display
- In the box that appears, locate “Show options” and check the box next to “Loop continuously until ‘Esc.’”
Check the box next to “Loop continuously until ‘Esc.’”
- Click “OK.”
Setting up timing between slides
Microsoft PPT will automatically set your slides to transition every two minutes, but you can easily customize how long you want each slide to display before moving to the next slide.
- In the main menu, select “Transitions.”
Click “Transitions”
- Select the slide that you want to customize for the display time. If you would like all of the slides to have the same transition time, select all slides instead of just one.
Select the slide for which you want to customize the display time. If you’d like all of the slides to have the same transition time, highlight all slides instead of just one.
- In the “Timing” group under “Advance Slide,” check the box next to “After:.”
Under “Advance Slide,” check the box next to “After:”
- In the box next to “After:,” move the arrows up and down to determine how long you’d like the slides to display.
Once you loop your slideshow, it will display on a loop while you present. To stop this looping, simply press “Esc” on your keyboard. This will end your presentation looping.
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How to Loop a PowerPoint Slide Show to Repeat Automatically
Set up a PowerPoint Presentation That Loops or Repeats Continuously
by Avantix Learning Team | Updated November 12, 2021
Applies to: Microsoft ® PowerPoint ® 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 (Windows)
You can set up a PowerPoint slide show to loop or repeat automatically. A looping presentation can be used at events, trade shows or even in a reception area in an office. The easiest way to set up a slide show to loop or replay continuously is to apply automatic transitions and then configure Slide Show settings.
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Step 1: Apply transitions to automatically advance slides during a slide show
Transitions occur between slides when you run a slide show.
To apply transitions to automatically advance slides during a slide show:
- In Normal View or Slide Sorter View, display or select a slide.
- Click the Transitions tab in the Ribbon.
- Select a transition in the Transitions gallery (such as Fade).
- Click Effect Options and choose the desired option. Effect Options change depending on the transition you selected.
- In the Timing group, click the arrows beside Duration to set the timing you want (in seconds) for the transition. You may also type a duration.
- In the Timing group, under Advance Slides, deselect or uncheck On mouse click and beside After, select or click the up and down arrows to set the timing to transition to the next slide. You may also type a duration.
- In the Timing group, click Apply to All.
In the Transitions tab in PowerPoint, you can select the type of transition (such as Fade) as well as timing options:
Step 2: Set up a presentation to loop during a slide show
To set up a PowerPoint presentation to loop during a slide show:
- Click the Slide Show tab in the Ribbon and then click Set Up Slide Show. A dialog box appears.
- Under Show type, if you select Presented by a speaker (full screen), the speaker or those watching the slide show will have control over when they advance slides. This is the default setting for slide shows. If you select Browsed by an individual (window), those watching the slide show do NOT have control over when slides advance. If you select Browsed at kiosk (full screen), those watching the slide show do NOT have control over when slides advance and the presentation automatically loops until those watching press Escape (Esc).
- Under Show options, select Loop continuously until 'Esc'. You will be able to select this option if you selected one of the first two options under Show type.
Below is the Set Up Show dialog box with Presented by speaker selected and looping enabled:
If you want to set specific timings for slides to advance or to add narration, check out the article How to Run a PowerPoint Slide Show Automatically (Set Up a Self-Running Presentation) . If you have audio or video in the presentation, you'll need to set the media to play automatically (on the Playback tab in the Ribbon) and animations will also need to be set to run automatically.
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Setting up a PowerPoint slideshow to loop continuously is easy:
- Switch to the Slide Show Ribbon tab.
- Click on Set Up Slide Show .
- Tick the Loop continuously until 'Esc' checkbox.
By default, PowerPoint advances to the next slide only when a mouse click occurs. If you want your slideshow to advance automatically, follow the steps below:
- Select all slides in the navigation pane.
- Switch to the Transitions tab in the Ribbon.
- In the Timing group under Advance Slide tick the checkbox next to After:
- Enter the duration you want each slide to display.
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On the Slide Show tab, click Set Up Slide Show .
Under Show type , pick one of the following:
To allow the people watching your slide show to have control over when they advance the slides, select Presented by a speaker (full screen) .
To present your slide show in a window, where control over advancing the slides is not available to the people watching, select Browsed by an individual (window) .
To loop your slide show until the people watching press Esc, select Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) .
Rehearse and record slide timings
When you choose the following show types: Presented by a speaker (full screen) and Browsed at a kiosk (full screen), you’ll want to rehearse and record timings for effects and slides.
On the Slide Show tab, click Rehearse Timings .
Note: The presentation timer begins immediately when you click Rehearse Timings .
The Rehearsal toolbar appears and the Slide Time box begins timing the presentation.
Figure: The Rehearsal toolbar
While timing your presentation, you can do one or more of the following on the Rehearsal toolbar:
To move to the next slide, click Next .
To temporarily stop recording the time, click Pause .
To restart recording the time after pausing, click Pause .
To set an exact length of time for a slide to appear, type the length of time in the Slide Time box.
To restart recording the time for the current slide, click Repeat .
After you set the time for the last slide, a message box displays the total time for the presentation and prompts you to do one of the following:
To keep the recorded slide timings, click Yes .
To discard the recorded slide timings, click No .
Slide Sorter view appears and displays the time of each slide in your presentation.
Add narration or sound
To record a narration, your computer requires a sound card and a microphone, and a microphone connector if the microphone is not a part of your computer.
On the Slide Show tab, in the Set Up group, click the arrow on the Record Slide Show button.
Select one of the following:
Start Recording from Beginning
Start Recording from Current Slide
In the Record Slide Show dialog box, select the Narrations and laser pointer check box, and if appropriate, select or deselect the Slide and animation timings check box.
Click Start Recording .
To pause the narration, in the Recording shortcut menu in Slide Show view, click Pause . And to resume your narration, click Resume Recording .
To end your slide show recording, right-click the slide, and then click End Show .
The recorded slide show timings are automatically saved and the slide show appears in Slide Sorter view with timings beneath each slide.
You can record a narration before you run a presentation, or you can record it during the presentation and include audience comments. If you do not want narration throughout your entire presentation, you can record separate sounds or comments on selected slides or objects. For more details, see Record a slide show with narration and slide timings .
To present your slide show in a window, where control over advancing the slides is available to the people watching, select Browsed by an individual (window) .
Note: Selecting this option automatically selects the Loop continuously until 'Esc" check box and causes your slide show to run in a loop.
Set up slide transitions
If you want a slide show to run automatically at a kiosk, you can control when and how the slides advance. To do this, you can apply the same transition to all slides in the presentation and set the transition to automatically advance after a certain time interval.
On the Transitions tab, click the transition that you want.
Do the following on the Transitions tab:
To set the amount of time that each slide is displayed, select After and enter the number of seconds you want.
To set the duration of each transition between slides, enter the amount of time in the Duration box.
Click Apply to All .
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How to Loop a PowerPoint in 5 Simple Steps
September 10, 2019
by Mara Calvello
Public speaking isn’t for everyone.
And if you’re anything like me, the idea of standing up in front of a group of people and presenting a PowerPoint can seem like its own circle of hell.
There are ways to make the nightmare less scary, and that includes putting the PowerPoint on loop, so you can sit back, relax, and let your slides present themselves. If you’re unsure how to loop a PowerPoint, it can be done in just a few steps.
Let’s break it down!
Looping a PowerPoint
There’s a lot you can do in PowerPoint to make it more exciting, like inserting a GIF and embedding a YouTube video . When it comes to looping your PowerPoint, each slide will automatically be shown for a specific amount of time, and when the entire presentation ends, it’ll start from the beginning completely on its own.
How to loop a PowerPoint:
- Click Slide Show from the top menu.
- Click Set Up Slide Show.
- Click Loop continuously.
- Select all slides and click Transitions from the top menu.
- Uncheck “On Mouse Click” and adjust timing.
For more in-depth instructions on how to loop your PowerPoint, including screenshots, keep reading!
1. Click Slide Show
From your PowerPoint presentation, select Slide Show from the top menu.
2. Click Set Up Slide Show
From the Slide Show list of options, click Set Up Slide Show .
3. Click Loop continuously
Under “Show options”, choose Loop continuously until ‘Esc’ , then click OK.
4. Select all slides and click Transitions
Next, select all of your slides from the left-hand menu. Then, click Transitions from the top menu.
5. Uncheck “On Mouse Click” and adjust the timing
Uncheck the box that says “On Mouse Click.” This will allow the slides to move from one to the other without you having to click the mouse.
Then, adjust how long you would like each slide to display before automatically moving onto the next slide. In the below example, each slide will show for two minutes before moving on.
Create an infinite loop
Some things are better on loop, like when your favorite band releases a new song and you can’t wait to memorize the lyrics. Or, a PowerPoint that you’d like to restart completely on its own while you’re busy doing more important things, like listening to that song.
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Slideshows are sometimes used to display images at events, such as weddings or trade shows. Whatever the occasion might be, you’ll want to loop your PowerPoint presentation so your guests aren’t staring at a blank screen. Here’s how it’s done.
Set Up Your Slideshow to Be Looped
First, open your PowerPoint presentation in which you would like to loop. Once open, navigate to the “Set Up” group of the “Slide Show” tab and then select the “Set Up Slide Show” button.
The “Set Up Show” window will appear. In the “Show options” group, check the box next to “Loop Continuously until Esc.” Once selected, click “OK” in the bottom-right corner of the window.
Now, when you play your slideshow, it will end only when you press the “Esc” key instead of when you’ve finished the last slide.
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One caveat: With the way we currently have it set up, the slideshow will proceed only when someone clicks the mouse button. That’s fine if there will be a speaker present at all times. Otherwise, you’ll need to set up automatic slide transitions.
Apply Automatic Slide Transitions
Head back to the “Set Up Show” window by selecting “Set Up Slide Show” in the “Set Up” group of the “Slide Show” tab.
There are a couple of options you need to select, but one important note is that you must first select “Using Timings, If Present” under the “Advance Slides” group.
The next option we select will lock a few things in place (which is why you need to select “Using Timings, If Present” first).
Under the “Show Type” group, select “Browsed at a Kiosk (Full Screen).” The “Loop Continuously until Esc” option will be enabled automatically if you haven’t already turned it on, and the option you’ve selected under “Advance Slides” will remain unchanged.
Select “OK” when ready to proceed.
Without the “Browsed at a Kiosk” option enabled, the automatic slide progressions would be disabled if someone were to press the Back key. With it enabled, the Forward and Back keys are locked, allowing the slideshow to automatically progress unattended without fear of someone breaking it.
Now it’s time to set the timings of the slides. Head over to the “Transitions” tab. In the “Timing” group, check the box next to “After” and set the timing at which you’d like each slide to progress. Note that it doesn’t matter if the box next to “On Mouse Click” is checked or not—it won’t work.
After that, select the “Apply to All” option in the same group.
Now, when you play your slideshow, it will continuously loop without interruption. To exit the slideshow, press the “Esc” button.
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How to Create a Looping Slideshow in PowerPoint · Open your PowerPoint presentation. · Click the [Slide Show] tab > From the "Set Up" group, click "Set Up Slide
To loop a PowerPoint slideshow, you'll need to enable looping in the "Set Up Slide Show" menu. · Once you set your PowerPoint to loop, it'll
In this video I will show you how to loop your Powerpoint presentation so it will automatically go back to the beginning once it reaches the
Create your PowerPoint presentation. · In the main menu of your PowerPoint (along the top of the screen), select “Slide Show.” · In the menu that
You can set up a PowerPoint slide show to loop or repeat automatically. A looping presentation can be used at events, trade shows or even in
1. With the presentation open, select the "Slide Show" tab on the ribbon menu. · 2. Click the "Set Up Slide Show" button. · 3. Check the "Loop continuously until
How to Loop a PowerPoint Presentation · Switch to the Slide Show Ribbon tab. · Click on Set Up Slide Show. · Tick the Loop continuously until 'Esc'
To loop your slide show until the people watching press Esc, select Browsed at a kiosk (full screen). shows self-running powerpoint dialog box
Click Slide Show from the top menu. · Click Set Up Slide Show. · Click Loop continuously. · Select all slides and click Transitions from the top
First, open your PowerPoint presentation in which you would like to loop. Once open, navigate to the “Set Up” group of the “Slide Show” tab and