Auto slide play vs manual advance

I just had a rotten experience. I drove 1 1/2 hours to another city to give a presentation using Keynote slides.
As I was setting up, I noticed that the slides automatically advanced. I had no idea why. I didn't make any settings to do that and didn't want it. I have other presentations that work fine.
Since I am not a Keynote expert, I don't know the myriad commands and menus. I also think Keynote and Pages have the worst UIs of all Apple's products - items are hidden under multiple layers with odd names that you wouldn't recognize.
So, for 20 minutes, I frantically searched through the Keynote menus looking for anything that said Auto advance, timed advance, auto anything - nothing. It ought to be in plain view under the View command, the most logical place.
I looked through the Keynotes Help menu and found absolutely nothing related to auto advancing slides. There was no internet at that location, so I could only use the internal help info.
Finally, in desperation, I exported the talk to PPT and put it on my host's PC, thinking Keynotes had a bug. Well, it behaved exactly the same way.
So, my host sat at the computer manually advancing the slides, and backing them up when they jumped for a hour talk. THANKS APPLE.
When I got home, I spent an hour combing through all the menus trying to find anything about auto advancing the slides.
I knew from looking at the language in the menus in Keynotes and Pages, that Apple's terms wouldn't be ordinary terms used to describe advancing slides.
I finally found it. Buried under the Inspector, the left hand icon Document Inspector, under the heading Document, under the Presentation pull down menu were the terms "Normal" and "Self-Playing". The clue, of course, was Self-Playing. Clicking Normal fixed the problem.
This item was badly named and four levels deep - Inspector/Document Inspector/Presentation/Normal.
Maybe this note will help others find this item is Apple's maze of confusing menus.

command is buried somewhere inside Keynote. I can't remember where.
The name of the command has nothing to do with starting/stoping auto advance.
This is one of the worst UI things from Apple. Reminds me of XP.

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I'm a media designer that produces corporate media content for a recruiting firm.
Objective:
I'm trying to devise a way for presenters in our sales offices to run standardized group interview and training HD keynote shows without the use of a DVD player or a laptop on their LCD screens.
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