Barett,
Have you tried pressing w(hite), b(lack) that seems to pause the show and
pressing it again restarts it. I am using the Dutch version here so I have
to press another letter (z) to get a black screen and pause, so you might
want to press F1 and see if b is the right letter.

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Luc Sanders
(MVP - PowerPoint)
>I have a PowerPoint Running on automatic timings and it is presented in
>kiosk
> mode under custom buttons or any thing else can i puase the show while its
> running?