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Setting up a User-Interactive Kiosk

There are many ways of distributing a user-interactive presentation. One of them is to set up a computer in a public place and allow people to view the presentation on that computer. This is called a kiosk.

Security is an issue with a kiosk because you don't want people to steal the computer, shut down the presentation, alter the presentation, or do any other mischief. Therefore, you may want to use PowerPoint's special Kiosk Mode when running such presentations, to give yourself more control over what the audience can and can't do.

Specifically, here's what happens when you use Kiosk Mode:

The keyboard does not work except for the Esc key (which exits the presentation).

The mouse can be used to click action buttons and hyperlinks, but clicking in general does not do anything.

The control buttons do not appear in the bottom left corner of the display, and you cannot right-click to open a menu. Right-clicking does nothing.

To turn on Kiosk Mode, choose Slide Show⇨Set Up Show. In the Set Up Show dialog box, choose Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) and click OK (see Figure 17-8).

Figure 17-8: Set up Kiosk Mode to limit the control users have during the show.

A kiosk is only as good as its physical security, however. You will need to hide the keyboard at the kiosk (otherwise people will be able to press Esc to shut it down), and you will probably want to hide the system unit too (so people will not be able to press its power button to restart). Leave only the monitor and mouse available for public use; lock the rest of the equipment up in a secure cabinet.