Great idea, wish I'd thought of that several hours ago! As a workaround that should work.

I'm not sure if it's a timing setting I'm missing or what, but it only seems to be doing it when on one particular slide where I have 3 photos popup up, one at a time. And then after the 3rd one it's only there for about 1 second before the slide transition begins.

I have other slides with multiple animations (all photos for a graduation presentation I'm doing for my daughter) and it doesn't seem to be affected.

Thanks