MasterView International
by Luigi Canali De Rossi
July 15th, 2002
Another reader, Garrison Watts, asked:
"When using slide show and a projector with PP, is it possible to
keep chosen slides visible on the laptop to the speaker but not visible
(perhaps with a blank screen or the previous slide)to the audience who is
viewing the screen?"
The expert advice of Luigi Canali was the following:
Presenter View
If you can get your hands on Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, there is a new
set of features called Presenter View that do just what you are looking
for. With it (and a PC that supports multiple monitors), you can show the
presentation through a projector while the screen on your notebook shows
you what bullet or slide is coming next and displays your speaker notes in
a scrollable box on the bottom of the screen.
The Presenter option also provides a thumbnail view of all your slides
in a scrollable column on the left side of the screen, to simplify jumping
around in your presentation.
http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/
0,aid,49622,00.asp
Presenter View features options that allow you more control over the
slide show presentation, such as the ability to show slides out of
sequence and a black-out button that allows you to blacken the screen for
the audience while maintaining your view of the presentation and your
notes on your own monitor.
Presenter view works with PowerPoint 2002 and Microsoft Windows 98 or
Microsoft Windows 2000 when you run your presentation from one monitor and
let the audience view it on another monitor or a projector.
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/
articles/PresenterView.aspx
Setting up a presentation to use presenter view
System requirements
In order to use presenter view, your computer must meet the following
requirements:
The computer must have multiple monitor capability - check with the
manufacturer about this. Usually desktop computers require two video cards
in order to have multiple monitor capability; laptops often have the
capability built in.
Desktop computers must be running either the Microsoft Windows 98 or
Microsoft Windows 2000 operating system.
Laptop computers must be running the Microsoft Windows 98 operating
system.
Multiple monitor support must be turned on.
Presenter view must be turned on.
Step-by-step
Finally, to turn on multiple monitor support and presenter view in
PowerPoint 2002, on the Slide Show menu, click Set Up Show.
Under Multiple monitors, select the Show Presenter View check box.
In the Display slide show on list, click the monitor you want the slide
show presentation to appear on.
Other Info
Up to nine monitors can be configured on your PC using Windows 98
multiple display support. You can then adjust the position, color depth,
and resolution of each of your nine monitors, or move applications from
one monitor to another.
To take advantage of Windows 98 multiple monitor support, you will need
one of two types of display adapters - a PCI (Peripheral Component
Interconnect) or AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) video card - and the
appropriate driver. Each PCI or AGP card must also be able to run in GUI
mode without using VGA resources. You need to have a display adapter for
your primary monitor and for each additional monitor you install. Many newer computers have a built-in video card, so check your PC first before
purchasing one. The Windows 98 CD-ROM includes many of the drivers that
are required to run these display adapters. For more information about
specific multi-monitor support devices, refer to Hardware Requirements for
Multiple Display Support in Windows 98 at the Microsoft Personal Support
Center.
If you have Windows XP you can read more on this topic at:
http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSXP/home/
using/howto/personalize/multimonitor.asp
"Expand Your Workspace with Multiple Monitors and Dualview "
I hope this solves your problem.
Please let me know if I can help further on this issue.
With my best regards,
Luigi Canali De Rossi
Editor-in-Chief
MasterView International
You can read this article in the original issue of MasterView.
