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MW transferred 2 index entries from simpress/01/06040000.xhp.</comment> 54<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id4901272" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><variable id="show"><link href="text/simpress/guide/show.xhp" name="Showing a Slide Show">Showing a Slide Show</link> 55</variable></paragraph><comment>UFI: new file see i68756</comment> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id9636829" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Different ways exist to start a slide show. Once a slide show is running, you can take control pressing keys or clicking the mouse buttons.</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id7076937" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">By default, a slide show always starts with the first slide. You advance manually through slides up to the last slide. You can change these settings.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id9954527" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Running a Slide Show</paragraph> 59<list type="unordered"> 60<listitem> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id6860255" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <emph>Slide Show - Slide Show</emph> to run the show.</paragraph> 62</listitem> 63</list> 64<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id4199957" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">If you want all shows to start from the current slide instead of the first slide, choose <emph><switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="MAC">%PRODUCTNAME - Preferences</caseinline><defaultinline>Tools - Options</defaultinline></switchinline> - %PRODUCTNAME Impress - General</emph> and click <emph>Always with current page</emph>.</paragraph> 65<list type="unordered"> 66<listitem> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3209936" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click to advance to the next effect or to the next slide.</paragraph> 68</listitem> 69</list> 70<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id8702658" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Press <item type="keycode">Esc</item> to abort the show before the end.</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3741264" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Many more keys are available to <link href="text/simpress/04/01020000.xhp">control a slide show</link>. You can also right-click to open a context menu with useful commands.</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id5694143" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Showing an automatic slide show (kiosk mode)</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id5829645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">For an automatic change to the next slide, you must assign a slide transition to each slide. </paragraph> 74<list type="ordered"> 75<listitem> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id2361522" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">On the Task Pane, click <emph>Slide Transition</emph> to open that tab page.</paragraph> 77</listitem> 78<listitem> 79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id9168980" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the <emph>Advance slide</emph> area, click <emph>Automatically after</emph>, and select a time duration.</paragraph> 80</listitem> 81<listitem> 82<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id9766533" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Click <emph>Apply to All Slides</emph>.</paragraph> 83</listitem> 84</list> 85<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id6081728" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You can assign a different time for every slide to advance to the next slide. The <link href="text/simpress/guide/rehearse_timings.xhp">rehearse timings</link> feature can assist you to get the timing right.</paragraph> 86<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id9219641" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">To advance to the first slide, after all slides have been shown, you must set the slide show to repeat automatically.</paragraph> 87<list type="ordered"> 88<listitem> 89<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3174230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Choose <emph>Slide Show - Slide Show Settings</emph>.</paragraph> 90</listitem> 91<listitem> 92<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id1336405" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">In the Type area, click <emph>Auto</emph> and select a pause time between shows.</paragraph> 93</listitem> 94</list> 95<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id4959257" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">When you create a new slide show using the <link href="text/shared/autopi/01050000.xhp">Presentation Wizard</link>, you can select the duration of slides and of the pause, on the third wizard page.</paragraph> 96<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id1906491" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Running a slide show from a file</paragraph> 97<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id4799340" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You can start %PRODUCTNAME from a command prompt, followed by the parameter <item type="literal">-show</item> and an Impress filename. For example, to start the file <item type="literal">filename.odp</item> from the command prompt, enter the following command:</paragraph> 98<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id1502121" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 99<item type="literal">soffice -show filename.odp</item> 100</paragraph> 101<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id8266853" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">This assumes that soffice is in the program path of your system, and that <item type="literal">filename.odp</item> is located in the current directory.</paragraph> 102<section id="relatedtopics"> 103<embed href="text/simpress/guide/individual.xhp#individual"/> 104<embed href="text/simpress/guide/rehearse_timings.xhp#rehearse_timings"/> 105<embed href="text/simpress/guide/printing.xhp#printing"/> 106</section> 107</body> 108</helpdocument> 109