Windows PowerPoint presentation feature missing in Mac PowerPoint?

[Kwan]

HHi everyone,

Having used Macs for 20 years, I've not been accustomed to Windows very
much. I've just discovered a feature of Windows PowerPoint that would be
quite useful but isn't possible in my version of Keynote 3.0.2.

What I want is this: When giving a presentation using Presenter mode,
the main slide is being projected while the laptop shows the Presenter
screen. In Windows PowerPoint, I can Alt-Tab while in this view to go to
& use another program, or to modify another presentation in PowerPoint.
The catch is that I can do this without affecting the slide that's being
presented on the projector. When I'm ready to return to the projected
slide, I can Alt-Tab back to it to advance it, etc. All this time, the
audience has no idea that I've done anything different to just advancing
the slides.

Why would I want to do this? When I'm up the back of the hall as the AV
Guy, I can control the slides for the speaker or for the stage show, & I
can still load new presentations & modify them as further speakers bring
them to me. Or I can switch to the audio program to trigger sounds to
play, or to record from the mixer desk. Etc, etc, etc, all very useful.

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this with my current versions of
Keynote 3.0.2 or PowerPoint 2004. Any ideas if the latest version of
Keynote (or PowerPoint 2008) does this?

Thanks.

Kwan.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

HHi everyone,

Having used Macs for 20 years, I've not been accustomed to Windows very
much. I've just discovered a feature of Windows PowerPoint that would be
quite useful but isn't possible in my version of Keynote 3.0.2.

What I want is this: When giving a presentation using Presenter mode,
the main slide is being projected while the laptop shows the Presenter
screen. In Windows PowerPoint, I can Alt-Tab while in this view to go to
& use another program, or to modify another presentation in PowerPoint.
The catch is that I can do this without affecting the slide that's being
presented on the projector. When I'm ready to return to the projected
slide, I can Alt-Tab back to it to advance it, etc. All this time, the
audience has no idea that I've done anything different to just advancing
the slides.

Why would I want to do this? When I'm up the back of the hall as the AV
Guy, I can control the slides for the speaker or for the stage show, & I
can still load new presentations & modify them as further speakers bring
them to me. Or I can switch to the audio program to trigger sounds to
play, or to record from the mixer desk. Etc, etc, etc, all very useful.

There doesn't seem to be a way to do this with my current versions of
Keynote 3.0.2 or PowerPoint 2004. Any ideas if the latest version of
Keynote (or PowerPoint 2008) does this?

Thanks.

Kwan.

Hi

I can't speak for KeyNote, but I have an idea you could try with PowerPoint.

PowerPoint can run a presentation in a window. Use that feature. Set
your computer's system preferences so that the presentation window runs
in the projector's screen while your computer has access to everything else.

Please keep in mind I have not actually tried this, but I think it has a
reasonable chance of working. If it does, please post back with the results.

To get to the monitor preferences:
Apple Menu > System Preferences > Displays

To use PowerPoint's presentation in a window feature:
View > Toolbars > Customize menus and toolbars
Click Commands tab
Left side select All Commands
Right slide scroll down to Slide Show in a Window
Drag Slide Show in a Window icon to a toolbar or menu
Click OK

Then just click on the Slide Show in a Window icon to start the show in
a window. Drag that window off the left or right side of the screen to
get it into the projector's display window.

-Jim

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Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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