How to Make a Kiosk

A kiosk is an automated display that allows you to create animated and professional presentations for a business, school projects, conferences and various other slide shows. The computer mouse or keyboard is not necessary with a kiosk because the slides advance automatically based on preset timer settings. A kiosk is created using PowerPoint software. Kiosks are designed to run non-stop or loop continuously. This type of presentation is typically used by vendors at a shopping mall, employers at a job fair, sales representatives at a car dealership and others.

Things You'll Need

• PowerPoint 2007/2010 Software

Instructions

1. Open PowerPoint and click the "Office Button" in the top-left corner. Select "New" and "Blank Presentation." Add text and images to the PPT canvas. Click "Design" and select one of the background templates, or you can import a background image from your computer or from the Internet.

2. Click "View," then "Slide Sorter" to add additional slides. From the "Slide Sorter" view, you can also select "Ctrl + M" to add new slides. Click "Insert" to add a picture, clip art, shapes, hyperlinks, date and time, slide numbers, movies, sound and much more.

3. Click "Slide Show," "Rehearse Timings," to start the slide show. The timer will start. Click the "Next" arrow after the appropriate number of seconds have passed --- give viewers enough time to read the material on the slide. Click the arrow to proceed to the next slide. Repeat process until you've reached the last slide in your presentation. Click "Yes" after seeing the message, for example: "The total time for the slide show was 10:00:19. Do you want to keep the new slide timings to use when you view the slide show?" Click "No" if you need to alter the timer settings.

4. Click "Slide Show," then "Set Up Slide Show." Click the bullet, "Browsed at a kiosk (full screen)" under "Show type." Selecting this bullet will automatically check the "Loop continuously until Esc" box. Click "OK."

5. Click the "Office Button" to save your presentation. Click "View," then "Slide Show" to run your kiosk, or just press the "F5" key. Click the "Esc" key to stop the slide show, otherwise it will run continuously.

References

• Creating a Kiosk