PowerPoint

[HB]

ppt running on second monitor while working on primary monitor

Help - I've tried everything I know.

I can't seem to get my ppt or pptx presentation running on my secondary monitor without the title bar & menu bar & bottom info bar, while being able to work on anything in another window (on the primary monitor). As soon as I work on something else, the ppt pauses. I'd rather not have it look like "just another microsoft program" with all the clutter - not as professional!

I've spent alot of time putting this thing together - & things just aren't working. I googled & can't find an answer. I've saved as different versions - window - kiosk etc etc. Even tried diff viewers.

Any ideas?

 

[Mike Labbe]

Powerpoint is designed to pause the presentation when the focus moves to a different monitor.

Here's a workaround:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/912254

What we did in our shop is to design them in PowerPoint, but then increase the size/resolution for our widescreen monitor. Then we FILE -> SAVE AS -> changed file type to JPG. This let us save each slide as a high quality JPG file.

From there, we play them with the WINDOWS MY PICTURES SLIDE SLOW (screen saver). It kicks in just after a couple mins, if the computer is idle. When we're using the main screen, we have a wallpaper on the other screen that has store policies. The taskbar is also hidden.

Ultramon software makes this even run better and lets you run 2 different slide shows at the same time (2 monitors).

I had a page in PPFA's FMO newsletter a few months ago, with the steps to set it up. The steps were for the individual slides method, for dual monitors. I found that the PowerPoint method slowed down the PC too much, and wasn't friendly with our visualization software. The screen saver automatically turns off when we use the POS or vis s/w.

Best regards,
Mike

 

[Paul N]

If memory serves me, there is a way around it and it includes making the presentation a stand-alone program.

Go to File / Pack and Go and follow the wizard.

When done, you double click on the new object and it should run as you describe.

Another really cool way is to use the free MS PhotoStory program. You just point to the pictures that you want and it assembles them into a slide-show very similar to PowerPoint's and is really quite cool (you can even add music / soundtrack). Very easy to use, by the way.

You can get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/PhotoStory/default.mspx