Rehearsing a PowerPoint deck can save slide timings that later advance the show automatically. If the deck starts moving without a click, inspect those timings and the show setup before rebuilding the slides or video. Decide whether this version is a manual presentation or a self-running display. Each purpose needs its own reviewed advance behavior.
Find the recorded timing rather than guessing
Open a copy of the deck and compare the affected slide with its next slide. Record whether the change happens after a repeatable elapsed time. A keyboard input, video trigger and saved slide timing can all cause movement, so note what actually occurs before changing several settings at once.
Keep the original rehearsal version. A self-running exhibition loop may still need recorded timings even if the speaker's version should be manual. Do not clear the only useful timing record merely to solve one live presentation.
Use the documented manual-show setting
Microsoft's rehearsal guide describes saved timings and the Set Up Slide Show choice between manual advance and recorded timings. In its documented workflow, the show setup is accessed from Slide Show. These are PowerPoint controls and may have version-specific wording.
Choose the intended manual behavior on the delivery copy, then start Slide Show mode. Verify the result rather than assuming that editing view demonstrates it. If the slide still advances, inspect other triggers and transition settings separately. Changing timing use does not explain every possible unintended navigation event.
A hypothetical three-slide rehearsal
Suppose three test slides were rehearsed with short intervals, but a speaker now needs to pause for questions. Record the saved intervals, choose the manual setting and stay on each slide longer than its old interval. Then use the intended click or key to advance exactly once.
This is a proposed test, not a verified venue rehearsal. Include any film slide in the test and allow its complete ending to play. A slide that waits correctly but a separate media object that starts or stops unexpectedly still needs its own check. Keep the slide-advance result and media-playback result in different columns.
Deliver the correct show variant
Accept the manual copy when it waits until the planned operator action and that action reaches the intended next slide. Reject a copy that still advances at the old time or skips multiple slides. Test the actual transferred file and the operator's planned input device.
Label a self-running copy separately if it is also required. Save the source, timing decision and rehearsal notes. Imagild's Skills can develop the visuals; saved slide timings and presentation control remain external PowerPoint work. Offline media availability, manual navigation and complete movie playback are independent acceptance items, even when they belong to the same event.