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### Configuring Slideshows

You can customize your slideshows in many different ways, including which notes to include, what order they should be shown, and how the facets of each note should be ordered. Usually, once you have settled on settings you like, you can leave them relatively unchanged when starting new slideshows.

The Basic settings of slideshows include:

Setting | Description
--- | ---
Source | Where the notes used in the slideshow should be taken from. You can choose all notes, the notes from the currently selected stack in the organization view, or the notes currently selected in the note browser.
Include only notes due for study | Whether the notes in the slideshow should only include the ones currently due for study. For example, if you select All Notes as the source, and check this box, you will get all notes currently due for study.
Prompt | Which facet of each note to use as the prompt. This option is only available when not studying the due notes, because due notes have the prompt stipulated by the learning schedule.
Response | Which facet should be used as the response. Again, this option does not apply to due notes, for the same reasons given for the prompt.
Limit notes to | By checking the box, you can impose a limit on the number of slide sets included in the slideshow, which you choose in the popup button.
Priority | When applying a limit to the number of slide sets in the slideshow, you can use this setting to give priority to certain types of notes.
Setup a Multiple Choice Quiz | When checked, this option will cause Mental Case to generate multiple choice slides. Only notes that meet the criteria for multiple choice will be included.
Share incorrect choices | Checking this option will cause facets to be shared between slide sets as incorrect options. This means you don't always have to enter incorrect choices on your notes in order to use them in a multiple choice quiz.

The Advanced settings include:

Setting | Description
--- | ---
Order | How notes in the slideshow should be sorted. You can have them shuffled randomly; ordered the same as in the stack; ordered according to how long they have been due for study; ordered according to how well known they are (i.e., retention score); or with notes that were recently graded wrong shown first.
Group notes by stack | Whether to keep the notes from each stack together when sorting them.
Default grade | The grade given to slide sets that you don't grade yourself.
Wrong notes reappear shortly after grading | If this is checked, a slide set that is marked as wrong will be repeated in the slideshow a few places later.
Wrong notes reappear at the end | If checked, slide sets marked as wrong will be repeated at the end of the slideshow.
Grading causes slideshow to advance | If this is checked, the slideshow will skip to the next slide set as soon as you grade it right or wrong.
Don't upgrade learning schedules | If checked, learning schedules will not be updated during the slideshow. You can use this option to run slideshows that you are not using to study, such as demonstration slideshows for others.
Animate transitions | Whether transitions between slide sets should be animated.
Combine facets on slide where possible | If consecutive facets are allowed to be combined on a single slide, checking this will cause them to be merged on one slide.
Reveal facets one at a time | Whether facets combined on a single slide should be revealed one at a time, or all together.

#### See also

Slideshow Topics
Slideshows
Starting a Slideshow
Reversing Facet Order in Slideshows
Shuffling Slideshows