How do you run presentations continuously, one after another?

[M Skabialka]

I'd like to set up a laptop to show several powerpoint presenations one
after the other without my having to stop one and load the next. They have
different backgrounds and master pages, etc, so I can't just takes the
slides from the other presenations and put them at the end of the first one.

Is there a way to do this?

 

[M Skabialka]

Found the answer finally at CNET:
Combine presentations in PowerPoint 2007

by jonneyrai - November 3, 2009 12:12 PM PST

In Reply to: Combine presentations in PowerPoint 2007 by austin1994

To combine two presentations into one (and hence more than two) in
PowerPoint 2007 follow this:

1. open the ppt that you want as your starting ppt
2. click below (in open area) the last slide in the left-hand-side thumbnail
view of slides
3. click on the arrow on New Slide button under Home Menu
4. select the option of Reuse Slides
5. on the right-hand-side the Reuse Slides toolbar will open
6. Click on browse and select Browse File
7. browse your 2nd ppt, it will open all the thumbnails from your 2nd ppt
8. now you have two option either click each slide, this will only insert
that slide. Or Right Click and select Insert All Slides option.
NOTE: Remember to Check the checkbox on bottom of Reuse Slides toolbar to
keep the original style and formatting.

Jonney

Before this I could only find many posts about PowerPoint 2003, which had
different mensu and options...
Thanks,
Mich

I'd like to set up a laptop to show several powerpoint presenations one
after the other without my having to stop one and load the next. They
have different backgrounds and master pages, etc, so I can't just takes
the slides from the other presenations and put them at the end of the
first one.

Is there a way to do this?

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[Steve Rindsberg]

I'd like to set up a laptop to show several powerpoint presenations one
after the other without my having to stop one and load the next. They have
different backgrounds and master pages, etc, so I can't just takes the
slides from the other presenations and put them at the end of the first one.

Is there a way to do this?

Might be easier than you think. You can copy/paste slides from sorter view of
one presentation to sorter view of the other OR use the insert slides from
file command (you don't mention which version of PPT you have, so I cant' tell
you how to find it).

In both cases, there's an option to preserve source formatting. Do that and
it'll keep the formatting from the original presentation.