Getting slide to advance sooner in PPT 2007

[Rebecca]

I have a slide with narration and have timed some items on a chart to
the narration. Works great, but the slide pauses a good 10 seconds
after the narration is completed before advancing, and nothing I
change the transition time to seems to work; I tried setting it to
lees than the actual narration time, but that did not work, either. I
also tried adding the narration to the custom animation and also to
just adding i via the Insert Sound option. Makes no difference. How
can I get the slide to advance just a couple of seconds after the
narration completes?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Two things to check:

- One, no animation takes place after the narration.
This is easy to check, just look at the animation pane for possible
culprits.

-Two, the narration does not have about 10 seconds of silence at the end of
it.
The easiest way to check this would be to open the narration in Windows
media player. You will need to extract it first, the best way is probably
to save the presentation as an HTML and root through the folder of stuff
until you find the correct sound file.

PowerPoint will complete all animations before it progresses to the next
slide, regardless of the auto advance timing (unless the sound file plays
over several slides). So if you find a long sound file, trim it and put it
back in the HTML. Then open PowerPoint, open the HTML version, and save
back to PPT format.

Bill Dilworth

 

[Rebecca]

Thanks Bill! The animation ends prior to the end of the narration. I
checked the narration file and while it had a bit of silence at the
end - which I edited out - it did not seem to make any difference in
the slide transition. If you have any other suggestions for me to
check, I'd appreciate it! Thanks so much for your expertise!

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Is there anything big or complicated on the next slide? The pre-load may be
slowing down the transition, but 10 seconds is a longgg time to a CPU.

Bill Dilworth