You can pause the slideshow if necessary. Hide the current slide of the presentation and display a black screen instead.

To do this, on the Control bar, click  More. In the drop-down list, check the Black screen box.

If the slides in the presentation were advanced automatically, the slideshow stops and the  Pause button turns into the  Play button.

To display the current slide again, do one of the following:

–On the Control bar, click  More. In the drop-down list, clear the Black screen checkbox.

–Perform any action to move to the previous/next slide.

–On the Control bar, click  Play.

–If you want to continue the presentation from a slide other than the current one, click  Slide thumbnails on the Control bar and select the desired slide on the Slide bar.