You can create multiple presentations that are adapted for a variety of audiences by creating a
custom showAn independent group of slides that you select from an existing presentation. For example — in a presentation for training purposes, you might create a custom show for your marketing organization and another show for your testing organization. You open and view the custom show from within the existing presentation.
from a single presentation. This saves you the effort of duplicating a presentation, saving it as a new file, and then modifying it for a different audience. Use a custom show to present a separate group of slides from your presentation, or to create a hyperlink to a group of slides in your presentation.
Do any of the following:
 | Create a custom show |
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Open the presentation that you want to use to create a custom show.
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On the Slide Show tab, under Play Slide Show, click Custom Shows, and then click Edit Custom Shows.
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Click New.
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Under Slides in presentation, click the slides that you want to include in the custom show, and then click Add.
 | Tip To select multiple slides, hold down
⌘ as you click the slides. |
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To change the order in which slides appear, under Slides in custom show, click a slide, and then click 
or 
to move the slide up or down in the list.
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Type a name in the Slide show name box, and then click OK. To create additional custom shows with any slides in your presentation, repeat these steps.
| Tip To see how a custom show will appear in slide show view, in the Custom Shows dialog box, click the name of the show, and then click Show. |
| Link to other customs shows |
A hyperlinked custom show is a quick way to navigate to other custom shows from your primary presentation. You can also create a table of contents slide to link from. Designing your presentation this way allows you to navigate from the table of contents slide to different sections of your presentation, so that you can choose which sections to show to your audience at a particular time. The following instructions explain how to create one or more custom shows, and then add a hyperlink from the primary presentation to the custom shows.
 | Note If you want to create a hyperlink from one presentation to a completely different presentation, you can add a hyperlink to the other document. For more information, see
Create, edit, or remove a hyperlink. |
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Open the presentation that you want to use to create a hyperlinked custom show.
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On the Slide Show tab, under Play Slide Show, click Custom Shows, and then click Edit Custom Shows.
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Click New.
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Under Slides in presentation, click the slides that you want to include in the custom show, and then click Add.
| Tip To select multiple sequential slides, click the first slide, and then hold down
SHIFT
while you click the last slide that you want to select. To select multiple nonsequential slides, hold down
COMMAND
while you click each slide that you want to select. |
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To change the order in which slides appear, under Slides in custom show, click a slide, and then click or to move the slide up or down in the list.
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Type a name in the Slide show name box, and then click OK. To create additional custom shows from any slides in your presentation, repeat steps 2 through 6.
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To create a hyperlink from the primary presentation to a supporting custom show, in your presentation, select the text or object that you want to represent the hyperlink. You can also create a table of contents and hyperlink from each text entry as a way to navigate through your custom show. To do so, insert a new slide into your presentation, type a table of contents, and then link from each entry.
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On the Slide Show tab, under Set Up, click Action Settings.
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In the Action Settings dialog box, select how to initiate the action by doing one of the following:
To initiate an action | Click |
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When you click the action button | The Mouse Click tab |
When you rest the mouse pointer on the action button | The Mouse Over tab |
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Click Hyperlink to, and then on the pop-menu, click Custom Show.
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Under Custom Shows, select the custom show you want to link to.
To return to the slide that you started the custom show from after the custom show plays, select the Show and return check box. This option is helpful if you have a slide that serves as a table of contents to custom shows.
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Click OK
To add additional links to other custom shows, repeat steps 7 through 12.
| Play a custom show |
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On the Slide Show tab, under Play Slide Show, click Custom Shows, and then click the custom show that you want to play.
| Note If you haven't created a custom show yet, click Edit Custom Shows, and then click New. |
