Presenter "Slide Properties"

[Newsgroup_User]

I'd like to NOT have slides automatically advance. This seems like a
reasonable option, but the way I configure it in Presenter is a little
bumpy.

Presenter > Slide Properties >
Select all slides, EDIT, check the "Advance by User" box.

Is there a way to make this the default?

KC

[Newsgroup_User]

By the way...

Presenter > Presentation Settings > Pause After Each Animation

Only prevents progressing to the next slide if the current slide has an
animation.

KC

[Guest]

>> Is there a way to make this the default?

Nope. 🙂 You could write a quick script to modify the underlying XML files, but why bother when it only takes a few seconds to modify them by hand with the Presenter interface?

However... you could make up a blank presentation with 20 - 30 slides to serve as a template. If you set the Presenter options for your template, then use a copy of it for all subsequent training, it will retain all the "default" settings you've made. The same thing goes for using the "duplicate slide" command in PowerPoint; if you duplicate a slide with "pause after animation" set, the duplicate has the same setting.