There are several ways to stop a presentation, depending on how you’ve set it up.

If you want to prevent unauthorized viewers from stopping a presentation (for example, if the presentation is playing in a kiosk or demonstration booth), you can set up the slideshow so that the viewer is required to provide the name and password for the administrator (or the user who is currently logged in) of the computer on which the slideshow is running.

To stop a presentation during playback:
To require an administrator name and password for stopping a presentation:
  1. Click Inspector in the toolbar, and then click the Document inspector button.

  2. In the Document inspector, click Document.

  3. Select the checkbox for “Require password to exit show.”

When stopping a presentation that requires a password, just type the name and password of the computer’s administrator (or the user who is currently logged in) in the fields that appear after you try to stop the presentation using any of the methods described above.

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