When you display a slide show, the mouse pointer and show controls are hidden. To make them appear, you can move the mouse. When you do this, very faint buttons appear in the bottom-left corner of the slide show, as shown in Figure 26-1, and the mouse pointer also appears. You can toggle the pointer and these buttons on and off by pressing A or = (equals). Ctrl+H hides the pointer and buttons. When you toggle this feature on, the following buttons appear:

FIGURE 26-1
Buttons appear in the bottom-left corner of a slide in Slide Show view. The third button opens a menu that controls navigation between slides.

• Back, the leftmost button, takes you back to the previous slide, or to the previous animation event if the present slide contains animation.
• Pen, next to Back, opens a menu for controlling the appearance of the pen or pointer.
• Slide, which displays a box icon, opens a menu for navigating between slides. You can also open the navigation menu, shown in Figure 26-2, by right-clicking anywhere on the slide.
• Forward, the rightmost button, moves you to the next slide. Normally, you can just click to go to the next slide, but if you are using the pen, then clicking it causes it to draw, rather than advance the resentation. In this situation, you can use the Forward button.

Because the slide navigation menu that appears is identical whether you click the Slide button or right-click anywhere on the slide, this chapter only mentions the right-click method whenever you need to choose something from this menu. However, keep in mind that you can also click the Slide button if you prefer.

FIGURE 26-2
Click the Slide button or right-click on the slide to open this menu.

There are a lot of shortcut keys to remember when working in Slide Show view, and so PowerPoint provides a handy summary of these keys. To see them, right-click and choose Help, or press F1. The Slide Show Help dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 26-3. Click OK to close this dialog box  when you are done.

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