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The Slide Timing group provides the option for a presentation to be run either manually or automatically. A manual presentation is one in which the user controls when each slide will be advanced. The spacebar or one of the buttons on the mini-toolbar which appears during a presentation can be used to navigate the slide deck. An automatic presentation is one in which the slides advance automatically, without user interaction, based on pre-defined slide timings.

##### Presentation mode and timings can be assigned as follows:

- Setting a presentation to run manually
- Setting a presentation to run automatically
- Specifying individual timings for existing slides
- Capturing new slides when set to run automatically

##### Setting a presentation to run manually

Select Manual in the Advance Mode combo box:
The Time combo box will be disabled.

##### Setting a presentation to run automatically

Select Automatic in the Advance Mode combo box. This action will assign a default time interval to any existing slides based on the current value in the Time combo box. You will see a small timer icon and value appear next to each slide.
If the presentation is run now, the slides will advance automatically and will have the same time interval between each slide.

Note The time interval begins when navigation has completed, so even if the time intervals are the same, the actual length of time that each slide is shown for can vary.

##### Specifying individual timings for existing slides

For greater control you can specify a time interval for each slide. To do this, select a slide thumbnail in the Slides dockable window, then specify a time interval by setting a value in the Time combobox.
In order to store the change to the slide timing interval you must recapture the slide while it is still selected. Failing to do this will result in the specified timing being lost.
You must repeat these two steps for each slide you wish to change.

##### Capturing new slides when set to run automatically

If the Advance Mode has already been set to Automatic, any new slides captured will be assigned a timing based on the current value in the Time combo box.

Note If you change the advance mode back to Manual, the timings will disappear from the slide thumbnails but the information is not deleted. This means that if you decide to change back to the automatic mode, the timings will reappear.

Tip If you decide that you want set a new time interval for all slides, you can do this in the presentation options dialog by specifying the default time interval and then clicking on the Update All Slides button.