I've created a small movie using the animation effects and delays. I have exported the presentation as a movie file What I'm trying to do is after the last animation completes I want the screen to stay the way it is for a few seconds. Currently, right after the last animation completes the presentation ends. How can I have the screen stay the way it is for a few seconds before the presentation ends? One option i thought of was to simply create a screenshot of everything and have that an an "animation" to last for a few seconds. However, I thought there would have been a better way to control how long the presentation itself lasts.

Do you mean in the actual animation running in Slide Show mode or do you mean it ends abruptly in the exported movie file?

What I mean is that at the end of the animation I want the slide to simply stay as it is. That is, text, images, all stay where it's at. Sort of like froze in time for a few seconds. I've figured a way to do what I'm looking for.

I created a small transparent PNG file (50x50 in size). I added the animation of Fade In and set the delay to be 10 seconds after the previous. This created the effect I was looking for.

The reason I needed the extra time is that one of the images is going to be a clickable image in the YouTube video (done via annotations). I wanted to give people time to click the image before the video ended.

That's a good method. (Very) slightly easier is to just use any shape instead onf the pNG and move it off slide.

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Thanks for the suggestion. It is easier than having to create an image and then inserting the image. Since my background is an image I just set the Shape Fill to No Fill and Outline to No Outline so it's transparent.