PowerPoint Presenter View Mode
Okay, perhaps I am the LAST person who uses PowerPoint on a regular basis to know that there has been a Presenter's View built-in to the software for the last couple of versions...both on the PC and the Apple versions. This mode allows you to set-up your laptop (or a desktop with two video cards) to show the presentation on the monitor the audience can see, while it allows you, the presenter, to see your notes view as well as small thumbnails of the slides, and it includes a few other useful options, too. Simply type "presenter" in the PowerPoint help file and there are well-done directions for setting up the dual monitors and the views. I am so happy I don't have to drag my paper notes with me anymore for presenting!
Two tips...the iBook does not have the ability to do anything but mirror the laptop monitor (unless you install an update which I actually did successfully on my brand new 12" iBook after taking a big breath), so I do not believe you can use the presenter's view. And, on my Windows XP laptop, I could not have the mirroring turned on (function-F10) when I was trying to get the presenter's view to work on dual monitors.
Just in case anyone else did not know about this!
Kathy
Two tips...the iBook does not have the ability to do anything but mirror the laptop monitor (unless you install an update which I actually did successfully on my brand new 12" iBook after taking a big breath), so I do not believe you can use the presenter's view. And, on my Windows XP laptop, I could not have the mirroring turned on (function-F10) when I was trying to get the presenter's view to work on dual monitors.
Just in case anyone else did not know about this!
Kathy
posted by Kathy Schrock at 12:59 PM
2 Comments:
Hi Kathy,
I recently read about this presenter feature someplace recently, but I appreciate being reminded. I tried Presenter View Mode with my PowerBook G4 and external monitor and it worked as advertised - pretty cool.
If you use a mouse click or a remote that simulates a mouse click, the cursor has to be on the public screen to advance a slide, and on the presenter's screen to scroll through notes. It looks like it might be rather easy to be "off" on slides - having one on the presenter's screen and one on the big screen. (Unless I am not doing something right which is often the case.)
Any who, I think I will practice with this A LOT before it goes prime time.
Thanks and I am delighted to have discovered your blog. You are in my blogline feed (which I would not have learned about except for a guide you suggested.
All the very best,
Doug
hello,
you don't know me, but I've been looking into possibilities to make the presenter's tool work on my 14'' iBook and came across your blog that provided the most interesting information of all. :) You are talking about an update, and I guess that might be what I'm looking for. Could you please let me know what update you are talking about? - you could just leave a comment on my blog, if you want to. Don't be confused by the German. I'm from Switzerland, that's why. :)
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