Well, now you have a real presentation. Make sure you are on Slide # 1. Go to Slide # 1 either in Slide Sorter View, Normal View, or Slide View. If you would like to view how your show looks, either go to the Menu Bar at the top and click-on Slide Show, then click on View Show, or you can just click on the Slide Show button at the bottom of the screen. Then, to advance, either tap the left mouse button, Space Bar or Enter key. If you desire to end the show, either tap the Esc key, in the upper left portion of the keyboard, or click the right mouse button and then click-on End Show.

If you have set times for your slides and desire to have the show run in "automatic," Click-on View Show and then on Set Up Show in the Menu Bar. The following menu screen will appear.

In the Advance slides box, click-in the circular area to the left of Using timings, if present. This will then run the show with the timings you selected.

Notice that there are a lot of enhancements in this Set Up Show menu screen. Experiment, as you desire. You can always come back and change them. Click-on OK when you have made your changes.

To really get precise timing for each slide transition, sound and build you can use a feature to set each movement precisely. Click-on Slide Show in the Menu bar and then on Rehearse Timings.

A small, rehearse timings "box" will appear – like the one on the left. It will "show" a running clock on the right side of the menu – that indicates the time for the entire show. In the center you will see another time for each "click" – transition, build, etc. When you click through your show, as indicated above, the timings will be recorded. When you then run the show it will run at the recorded pace. You can do this as often as you like.

Now save the presentation as you did before. Then File, Exit Power Point.

These are the basics for a PowerPoint presentation. You may want to try tinkering with the color menus and the timing options.