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Work with multiple monitors and presenter view
You can configure PowerPoint to use two monitors for
your presentation — one that only you see and one
the audience sees. In the monitor that you see, you
can perform some other action. The most common
scenario is to use your monitor to display Presenter
view and use its tools to make running a show easier.
Presenter view shows a screen split into three sections:
one for the current slide, another for the current
slide’s Notes page, and a third that shows thumbnail
images of the presentation’s slides — you can use
these thumbnails to look ahead in the presentation
and to quickly navigate to a specific slide. The
Presenter view also shows the slide show navigation
tools.
Before you can use Presenter View, you need to
attach a second monitor to your computer, or attach
an external monitor to your notebook computer. You
then configure that monitor in Windows (see the Tip
on the next page). You can then set up the slide show
to use the multiple monitors.
SET UP MULTIPLE MONITORS
1 Click the Slide Show tab.
2 Click Set Up Slide Show.
The Set Up Show dialog box
appears.
3 Click here and select the monitor
on which you want to show the
presentation.
4 Click the Show Presenter View
check box ( changes to ).
5 Click OK.
USE PRESENTER VIEW
1 Press F5.
The slide show begins
playing.
l The presenter’s monitor
(the monitor that you
did not select in Step 4
of “Set Up Multiple
Monitors” on the
opposite page) shows
the Presenter view, with
tools for navigating in
and delivering the
presentation.
* The current slide
appears.
* The Notes page for the
current slide appears.
*Thumbnails for each slide appear
2 Click an arrow button to move forward
and backwards through the slides.
Note: The other two slide show control
buttons that appear under the current slide
work as in a normal slide show, enabling you
to work with annotation settings and
navigate the show.
3 Click a slide thumbnail in the pane at the
bottom to jump to that slide.
4 Press Esc at any time to end the
presentation.
Attention!
Before you can use a second monitor in PowerPoint,
you need to configure the extra monitor in Windows.
In Windows Vista, click Start, click Control Panel, and
then under Appearance and Personalization, click
Adjust screen resolution. Click the 2 icon, click Extend
the desktop onto this monitor ( changes to ),
and then click OK.
More Options!
A computer that has a video adapter with a graphics
coprocessor can help speed up the display on your
monitor. If you have such hardware in your computer,
click the Slide Show tab, then click Set Up Slide Show
to display the Set Up Show dialog box. Click the
Use hardware graphics acceleration check box
( changes to ), and then click OK.