Tech tip: End PowerPoint on a black slide

By: Ryan T Johnson

When you reach the end of your PowerPoint in presentation mode the last thing you see isn’t your final slide, but instead a black screen with the text “End of slide show, click to exit.” It’s there to show the presentation has finished, but if you’ve already designed a slide for that then the black screen is redundant.

The final black slide is enabled by default, but you can turn it off for all presentations.

Go to File > Options and click Advanced on the left. Scroll down to the Slide Show section and untick End with black slide.

Screen shot of PowerPoint menu options

Click OK to save your changes.