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I have already created a slide show using the AUTOMATIONS tab and the Advance Slide Automatically After ---- function where I have manually entered the runtime of each individual slide until my Slide Show was complete. I now have a finished Show, but I want to determine its TOTAL Running Time. I would think the program would be able to give this information without running a Rehearsal, but I tried the Rehearsal function and found that will not accomplish this either.

How can I see the total run time?

Dave M
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Frank Angel
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To know the total time of a presentation with recorded timing, go to the Slide Show menu, and select Record from current slide as follows

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The following recording window will open with the total time of the presentation (in this case 16m 15s) in the bottom left, as I indicated with the red arrow (Note: this will not start the recording until you press the red button Record)

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I tested this on the current (2021) latest PowerPoint for Office 365 (v16.0)

divenex
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I recently had the same need and having been unable to find a simple solution, I added a feature to a free add-in that I created for PowerPoint power users called BrightSlide. It adds the required info to the Timing group of the Transitions tab. Here's a couple of screenshots of the feature in action:

Modified Timing group in the Transitions tab of PowerPoint

When clicking the Detail button (old screenshot from former product):

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To access the feature in BrightSlide, click the BrightSlide tab followed by Settings & Help / Settings / Ribbon Setup and check Legacy Tools. You'll then see a new Legacy Tools drop down in the BrightSlide ribbon in which you can activate the Timing Pro tools. They will then appear in the PowerPoint Transitions tab.

Jamie Garroch - MVP
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Here is the solution I found by a lot of trial and error. All you need to do is click on "Rehearse Timing" again, then move the bar on the bottom of the screen until you see the last slide. Click on that slide, and then end the show. It will show you the original timing you did. Then click yes or no, it doesn't matter, as it will record the same times.

Ayman Halabya
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Here is a vba solution.

  1. Put this into Standard Module.

     Dim myEventClassModule As New EventClassModule
 Sub Macro1()
     Set myEventClassModule.App = Application
     ActivePresentation.SlideShowSettings.Run
 End Sub

  2. Insert a Class Module and name it as EventClassModule.

  3. Put this into EventClassModule.

     Public WithEvents App As Application
 Dim myStartTime As Single
 Private Sub App_SlideShowBegin(ByVal Wn As SlideShowWindow)
     myStartTime = Timer
 End Sub
 Private Sub App_SlideShowEnd(ByVal Pres As Presentation)
     Debug.Print Timer - myStartTime
 End Sub
Kram Kramer
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This is not directly an answer to the OP's question about seeing the total time, but on a similar quest I've found this useful: If you go to the "Slide Sorter", either from the View ribbon or from the "Slide Sorter" button in the bottom line of the window, you'll see an overview of your slides along with the time for each slide.

This page doesn't give you the total time of all the slides, but it does tell you in a glance how long each of the slides takes, which helped me.

Slide sorter View

(My actual slides contain timing information for each and every slide, but the screenshot here only shows 00:05 for some slides; I don't know why... Works great for me)

Peter V. Mørch
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From this Office support article:

On the Slide Show tab, in the Set Up group, click Rehearse Timings.

The Rehearsal toolbar appears and the Slide Time box begins timing the presentation.

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  1. Next (advance to next slide)
  2. Pausecallout
  3. Slide Time callout
  4. Repeat
  5. Total presentation time

While timing your presentation, do one or more of the following on the Rehearsal toolbar:

  • To move to the next slide, click Next.
  • To temporarily stop recording the time, click Pause.
  • To restart recording the time after pausing, click Pause.
  • To set an exact length of time for a slide to appear, type the length of time in the Slide Time book.
  • To restart recording the time for the current slide, click Repeat.

After you set the time for the last slide, a message box displays the total time for the presentation and prompts you to do one of the following:

  • To keep the recorded slide timings, click Yes.
  • To discard the recorded slide timings, click No.

Slide Sorter view appears and displays the time of each slide in your presentation.

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Antp
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