Black Out Screen and Move to Next Slide in PowerPoint

[Rene]

Someone said there was a way to temporarily black out the screen during a
presentation to address the audience and then resume at the next slide, NOT
the one you were in when you blacked it out. We couldn't find any way of
doing that, without a second click or key stroke.
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Rene - Do appreciate your help

[Sandy]

On your laptop, during the presentation, hit the "B" (for black) key. To
return to projection, hit the "W" key.

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Sandy Johnson
Microsoft Certified Office Specialist (MOS PowerPoint)

[Kathy Jacobs]

Rene,
If you need this on every slide, I think you are going to need to do this
with two keystrokes - one to bring the slide back and one for the advance.
This is because the next keystroke after the W or B is used to bring the
content back to the screen.

I am wondering if you can do something with triggered animations to bring in
a black box and have that box linked to "Next Slide", but you would need to
have that box and its trigger on every slide. (Since everything on the
master except placeholders is behind slide content.)

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Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
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[villem teder]

Rene,

Just curious, how long has that "someone" been using PPT?
Because that is how it used to work, up to version 4, which was what,
over twelve years ago. For a while, it took only one click to advance
from a "B" black, but the blacked slide flashed briefly before
advancing to the next slide. Lost track of in which version you needed
to click twice to actually move to the next slide. Most annoying, for
those that liked the original method.

One method that has been suggested here before is to have hidden
slides where you want might black. You could even go so far as to have
a hidden slide between each regular slide. Normal clicks advance
through the slides. Pressing "H" takes you to the hidden slide, and
another click should advance to the next regular slide.

Villem Teder
Toronto

[Rene]

Thank you very much, Kathy. We had thought of doing exactly what you
proposed, but wondered if there was another way, since this person insisted
on having done it in the pasr.

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[Rene]

Villem,

This is great, thank you very much! We wondered if it wasn't a feature
taken away by upgrades.

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[Rene]

That would still require two kwy strokes, which, unfortunately, this person
didn't want to have to use. We did find in Help a work-around, which is
using the presenter view, however, that requires two monitors or a projector
connected to the laptop/PC. It also requires some settings to be adjusted
and a little training for the end-user that may want to use it, but it does
allow for a lot more control on the presenter's part.

Slide show menu, then Set up show... when the Set Up Show dialogue box pops
up select "Show Presenter View", under the multiple monitors section. The
some more settings will be required, but there is a button for the presenter
to blacken the slide show view, while retaining control of what happens next.

Again, I do appreciate your help,

Rene

[Rene]

I've already replied to Kathy above, so I hope I'm not being redundant, but
wanted to call your attention to another solution. We did find in Help a

work-around, which is using the presenter view, however, that requires two
monitors or a projector connected to the laptop/PC. It also requires some
settings to be adjusted and a little training for the end-user that may want
to use it, but it does allow for a lot more control on the presenter's part.

Slide show menu, then Set up show... when the Set Up Show dialogue box pops
up select "Show Presenter View", under the multiple monitors section. The
some more settings will be required, but there is a button for the presenter
to blacken the slide show view, while retaining control of what happens next.

Again, I do appreciate your help,

Rene

[Rene]

I did reply to the others with this. Let me know if this is redundant so I
don't make a fool of myself, again. We did find in Help a work-around, which

is using the presenter view, however, that requires two monitors or a
projector connected to the laptop/PC. It also requires some settings to be
adjusted and a little training for the end-user that may want to use it, but
it does allow for a lot more control on the presenter's part.

Slide show menu, then Set up show... when the Set Up Show dialogue box pops
up select "Show Presenter View", under the multiple monitors section. The
some more settings will be required, but there is a button for the presenter
to blacken the slide show view, while retaining control of what happens next.

Again, I do appreciate your help,

Rene