PowerPoint 2011 Presenter View At the top, there’s a bar showing how far into your presentation you’re currently at – giving you an at-a-glance idea of whether you’re on track. There’s buttons for Swap Displays (for easier dual-monitor setup), Tips (showing the keystroke shortcuts like B to black out the audience screen), and Exit Show.

On the left, “Step 3” is the current slide that the audience is seeing. To the right, “One Approach: Wait” is the next slide that the audience will see. This helps you build better segues.

At the bottom left, there’s my slide notes for the current slide. At the bottom right, I can type in meeting notes live without exiting my presentation. This is great when someone asks me a question that I want to address later, or if there’s something I want to add to my presentation the next time I give it. Move your mouse to the bottom of the screen, and PowerPoint pops up thumbnails for your slides, giving you a quick way to jump around from slide to slide without the audience getting dizzy. Great question! Whenever possible, I do my demos as screenshots. I know, the hard-core people in the room will boo, but I’ve found that I can usually teach most of the audience most of what they need to know without diving into SSMS.

I’d rather show someone a perfectly zoomed & cropped image than make them suffer with ZoomIt bouncing around all over the place. However, when I need to do demos, I lump them together in one very long stretch – I do slides, then demos, then slides again, and I only cut over once. I.abhor. presentations that are slides-demos-slides-demos-slides-demos-slides – did you.really.

need those slides in the middle, or could you have just talked without the crutch of PowerPoint? But that’s just me. This latest version of Office for Mac has just destroyed the single killer function of PowerPoint for Mac that it had over Keynote – the ability to scroll through all your slides while in a presentation, without changing the slide that’s projected, and choose another slide, even if it’s 30 slides on. This was brilliant, especially if like me you have large banks of slides that you choose parts of in different talks or lectures, or if you change your talk in response to audience questions, or to the changing flow of a presentation, or to differing audience responses. I’m going to reinstall the last version just for this.

Hi Brent, thanks for the response and a final ‘answer’. I think the risk was fulfilled! You need to put yourself in the shoes of someone presenting some work and having to record feedback from a client at the same time. Yes you can record notes in the Powerpoint file, but that’s not where you want them. Project management rarely happens using powerpoint.

It’s a nice feature to be able to record notes while you present on the.pptx file, but quite naive to think that it’s a good solution for more than about 20% of the time. For me the auto Presenter Notes function is a pain in the you know what. Thanks for getting us an answer though Brent! Cheers, Reece. Stumbled upon this discussion while trying to find some way to turn Presenter Tools OFF in preferences, so that I don’t have to manually turn the feature off every time I open a presentation. There are times when I like to have the Presenter tools on, and I have enjoyed this feature for several years (going back to PPT 2003).

But I want to run the program myself, not have Microsoft programmers decide that I will grow to like something. And, in fact, the sticking point for me is when I want to overlay PPT with IClicker, a “multi-tasking solution” that used to be very simple is now unnecessarily complicated. Thinking of dumping PPT for this very problem’s intractibility. Are you aware of a way to turn the over-ride off in Preferences? I developed a Jeopardy!

Game using Office for Mac 2011. Everything works fine in Slide View.

When I switch to Presenter View I get a problem. The hyperlinks change colors when clicked on the Jeopardy! Slide but none change on the Double Jeopardy! I checked the settings and they are correct. If I go back to Slide View the problem persists.

So, in summary, all works fine in Slide view, but hyperlink color change quits on Double Jeopardy! Slide when using Presenter View.

After that it no longer in works in Slide View. Somehow Presenter View breaks something. Any suggestions? I just started using PowerPoint a couple of weeks ago. The first couple of tries were pretty rough, but I sat down and read Office 2011 for Dummies, and I thought I was going to be able to do Presenter view on my MacBook Pro while projecting Slide view on the screen at the front of the room. I did all the things the book suggested, but it didn’t quite work, and the more I tried to correct it, the worse it got.

Now it’s gotten so bad that I can’t get Presenter View on the computer at all, regardless of whether the projector is connected to it or not, and when I try to use the projector, I get Presenter view on the screen at the front of the room, and Slide view on my computer. This is really a mess, and I’ve got to do a presentation on the weekend.

Is there any way you can help? I really enjoy the Office Products. But I’ve recently switched from PC onto a MBC 2011 (early) and I’m finding that I like the PC version of PPT presentations better. The reason is because on the PC side, you can edit the slides while also being in Presenter mode. So the audience will see corrections or edits in real time.

In the Mac side, I need to close the presentation and edit, and then bring it up again. Now I’m not a CEO or anything that needs to have perfect slideshows, but it would help while I’m teaching my science classes! Does anyone know if this feature exists on the Mac side? On a MacAir running PowerPoint (Office 2011), the Presenter View must have a bug.

I know what it is suppose to look like – – this is what it looks like on my desktop Mac. But on the MacAir, there is only one tiny postage stamp image and the tiny ones along the bottom, along with plenty of room for notes. I have tried everything and nothing seems to work. They were baffled at the Apple Genius Bar. My only solution right now is to uninstall it and reinstall the older version of PPT. I would rather it just work correctly.

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Please advise. I have been using presenter view for quite some time but just this week have run into a problem. The presenter view on my mac screen is showing the screen currently on the classroom projector screen, but on the computer instead of seeing the next slide that area is black. I still have the notes section, the slides at the bottom of the mac monitor. It is very odd, everything looks exactly how it always has except the waiting slide is not visible. The area is there for it, but the area is black. Any suggestions?

Been using PP 2008 on my MacBook Air for years with no problems. Just got a new Air and Office 2011 last week. Relearned all the new PP changes, put together a brand new PP for a presentation I had to give yesterday to 150 teachers. On site, we hooked the Mac via my new VGA adapter to the VGA cable, and got a black screen with vertical lines running down it. Changed the resolution (though I don’t actually know what it should be now–what should it be for a PP presentation on an Air, do you know?), nothing. Changed the resolution many times–at one point, got a picture of my Mac desktop on the big screen, but with a wavy line running through it, and it wouldn’t see my PP when I went into Presentation mode. Thinking maybe it was the projector, high on the auditorium ceiling, we set up another DLP projector onstage.

The same black screen appeared. I called Apple Support.

The guy was awful. Said he had no idea what was wrong. Said I should call Microsoft. Said he had no idea of what the resolution was supposed to be on an Air. In desperation, with 15 minutes to go, I borrowed a PC Notebook, which hooked up immediately, projecting on the screen with no problem at all. The program was hell, as the Notebook didn’t have a presentation mode, and I could only see the current slide. Since it was a brand new speech (with 300 slides), I had no idea what was coming next.

Winged it pretty well, I thought, but my head was exploding. I do lots of speeches/workshops with all different DLP or LCD projectors. Was it the brand new VGA adapter?

I called Apple today, the day after, & the guy was very helpful. He said to hook up my Mac to a projector with the VGA adapter, go under the Apple, and run Software Update in case there’s a firmware update for the VGS adapter. Haven’t done it yet, but will try. Reading your list of comments, I’m now panicked thinking I’m going to have this problem again, plus the Presentation Mode problem.

Any advice on things to try or explanations of why the projector wouldn’t recognize my Mac? I’d be most grateful for all ideas.

My usual programs are 5 hours with 700 slides, and if this happens again, my goose is cooked. Thanks for any help you can offer. I’ve got a new weird Mac PowerPoint problem that I don’t know how to solve and I’m hoping someone has experienced/fixed this vexing disaster. Here’s the lowdown. I’m using a MacBook Air, version 10.7.5, that I purchased new in October, 2012. I bought the new Office 2011 for Mac and had it loaded on the machine. In November, I put together my new PowerPoint files for my all-day children’s lit.

Seminars across the US. I have 6 files, each holding about 150 slides and weighing in at between 10 and 53 mg. I used them at my seminars for three weeks, 5 days each week, with no problems. Three weeks ago on a Monday, I opened my first PowerPoint file, put it in presentation mode, and began my seminar. I use a Kensington clicker, and was a couple of minutes into the seminar, when it stopped working.

I assumed it was the clicker. I changed the batteries, but it still wouldn’t advance my slides, though the laser pointer was still working and the little piece that goes into the USB port flashed each time I pressed the advance button on the clicker, so I assumed the problem was not with the Kensington.

I shut down PP and restarted my Mac. It worked for a few minutes and then stopped. At first I could advance my slides by pressing the space bar, the right and left arrows on the keyboard, and the touchpad, but soon those stopped functioning as well. Soon, the only way to advance my slides was to put my cursor on the little white arrow on the slide on my computer screen and click.

As time went on, the slides advanced slower, sometimes taking 3-5 seconds before they changed. Mind you, doing a 5-hour presentation tethered to a computer, advancing 700 slides by hand, was not what I’d call optimal. That night, I shut down my computer. On Day 2, it all worked normally again. Unfortunately, the rest of the week, it did not. When I got home after my frustrating week on the road, I took the Mac to the Apple store’s genius bar. The tech folks said they weren’t that conversant with Office, as it’s not a Mac product, but they figured that reinstalling Office would help, which they did.

(They said if that didn’t work, they could reinstall my hard drive, in case the Mac was the problem, and not the Office program.) I then went to the Microsoft store in the same mall, and the guys there had no advice for me either. I had been having trouble with Word, which freezes far too often, even when I’m doing something as simple as cutting and pasting text, or dragging a piece of text from one part of a page to another. They thought maybe both programs were corrupted somehow. They agreed that reinstalling my Office from my disks would solve the problem. When I then tried the Mac in presentation mode, it seemed fine, but I wasn’t connected to a DLP projector at the time. Word continued to misbehave, not responding, and having to be restarted several times a day.

Back on the road I went this week, fingers crossed that my Mac would behave. No such luck. It worked for a minute or two and then I had to advance every slide by hand, clicking the little white arrow. Sometimes, though, the touch pad would work, though it sometimes advanced 2 slides instead of one. I’m now trying to figure out just what could be wrong here. Is it my Mac? My Office program?

A bit of both? Thanks for any and all ideas.

Judy Freeman. Mac: PowerPoint 2011- I am having issues with screen resolution changing when using Presenters mode. Everything is fine when using Mirror image but when we go to Presenters view the image is far too big for the screen. Setting Display preferences to our usual 1024×768 does not change the image in Presenters view.

I have looked through everything I can possibly think of trying to find a resolution setting in PowerPoint that over rides the display pref. This happens with a number of different laptops in a number of venues so it an issue with PP software. Can anyone shine some light on what I may be running into?