Whilst on a few training courses I noticed that when the trainer was using Power Point he had one window on his screen and the presentation on the projector (or secondary display). I had wanted to know how to do it but to be honest never really got off my backside to look into it until the other day. The reason I looked into this was because my laptop has a wide screen display and obviously the projector only supports 1024x768. Out of sheer laziness and not looking into the settings I would more than often set my laptop resolution to 1024x768 and make do with it all looking a bit stretched across the screen or I could press Shift and F7 and have the two black borders down the sides. But the other day I was just playing around with Power Point and a Dell Projector and thought that it must be simple to do what I wanted to do. So I went and hand a look in the Slide Show option on the Power Point ribbon. The most obvious button for me to press then was "Set Up Slide Show" so I click on it and it gives you the following window:
In there is an option for Multiple Monitors, so I dropped the menu down for "Display Slide Show on:" and then selected the 2nd Monitor (on my laptop it was the projector, on my PC it is Monitor 2). I then also ticked the box for Show Presenter View.
I then loaded up a Power Point Presentation I had been sent to test to see what Power Point will now do. this is what I then was presented with:
As you can see Monitor 1 has the Presenter View and Monitor 2 has the Presentation. And it is as easy as that.
The Presenter View is very handy as it will display any notes that you may have on the slide, Elapsed Time, current time and a few slides on the bottom of the screen so you can then see what is coming up.
I almost kicked myself when I realised how easy it was to setup like that!
