Thumbnails too small to read in Presenter View

[Kevin]

I have a setup with multiple monitors and the presenter view works great for
letting me run the computer for the speaker on the platform. However, the
thumbnails are too small for me to read all but the largest text on the slide
(down the left side of the screen). I am using canned presentations with a
different speaker each week. They follow the general outline but usually
speak to points out of order. In the standard Slide Show View I can widen
the slides tab which increases the size of the thumbnails to a size that is
readable. But in the Presenter View the Slides down the left side don’t seem
to resize. I tried changing the screen resolution of the presenter monitor
but that didn’t help. Any tips would be appreciated.

 

[John Wilson]

Have you thought about not using presenter view? If you have the show on
monitor 2 but dont tick presenter view you should see edit view on monitor 1.
The thumbnails should advance with the show.
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[Kevin]

I have tried that but it seems unnecessarily complicated. If the focus is on
the editing screen instead of the display screen, I end up altering a slide
or creating a new slide in the presentation when issuing a “goto slide#â€.
Sometimes I can see the next thumbnail on the screen and don’t need to change
the focus and sometimes I have to click to scroll and remember to change the
focus back. Quite often there isn’t much time to realize a quote is being
referenced and to get it on the screen before it has passed. I would prefer
Presentation View if I could only read the slides. I have another PowerPoint
rig with a video switcher that allows me to freeze an image on the screen,
find the next slide and unfreeze the image. This works great for editing a
presentation in real time. On this rig however, the switcher has to go
through a black screen to get back to PowerPoint which is unacceptable.
Also, I don’t want the audience to see menus popping up on the projector as I
fumble around trying to figure out where the speaker has gone.