Powerpoint 2007 Use Presenter View to your benefits

During presentation, everyone must have faced problem of remembering slide sequence or which slide is going to come next or keeping printed notes to help us out. This can be a big problem sometime since it will reduce the overall effectiveness of the presentation. Microsoft powerpoint 2007 has answer to this problem.

Presenter View

You can run your Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 presentation from your laptop while your audience views it on a second monitor or most of the time projector screen. By using two display units, you can run other programs that your audience will not see, and you can access Presenter view. Presenter view offers the following tools to make it easier for you to present information:

1. You can use thumbnails to select slides out of sequence and create a customized presentation for your audience.
2. Preview text shows you what your next click will add to the screen, such as a new slide or the next bullet in a list.
3. Speaker's notes are shown in large, clear type so that you can use them as a script for your presentation.
4. You can black out the screen during your presentation and then resume where you left off. For example, you might not want to display the slide content during a break or a question and answer (Q and A) period.

In Presenter view, icons and buttons are large enough to navigate easily, even when you are using an unfamiliar keyboard or mouse. The following illustration shows the various tools that are available to you from Presenter view.

To use Presenter view, do the following:

1. Make sure that the computer that you are using for the presentation has multiple monitor capability. Most desktop computers require two video cards for multiple monitor capability, and many laptop computers have multiple monitor capability built in.

2. Turn on multiple monitor support.

3. Turn on Presenter view.

Turn on multiple monitor support
1. On the Slide Show tab, in the Monitors group, click Show Presenter View.
2. In the Display Properties dialog box, on the Settings tab, click the monitor icon for the presenter's monitor, and then select the Use this device as the primary monitor check box.
3. If the Use this device as the primary monitor check box is selected and unavailable, the monitor is already designated as the primary monitor. You can select only one primary monitor at a time. If you click a different monitor icon, the Use this device as the primary monitor check box is cleared and made available again.
4. Click the monitor icon for the audience's monitor, and then select the Extend my Windows Desktop onto this monitor check box.

Deliver a presentation on two monitors by using Presenter view
1. After you set up your monitors, open the presentation that you want to deliver, and then do the following: On the Slide Show tab, in the Set Up group, click Set Up Slide Show.
2. In the Set Up Show dialog box, choose the options that you want, and then click OK.
3. To begin delivering your presentation, on the View tab, in the Presentation Views group, click Slide Show.