You can bypass it if you place a link to "End Show" on the last slide and if the
link is clicked, the black screen will not show. Otherwise, there is no way to
remove it.

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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
> Is there any way to remove the "end of slideshow click to
> exit" at the end of a pptviewer show. I can get it to go
> away in the slide show, but when I package my file for a
> CD, it's back again.