View Two Slides While in Slide Show View at the same time

[Jugglertwo]

Does anyone know of a way to do the following that was asked by a co-worker
recently?
They have both 2003 and 2007 PowerPoint.
1) They want to be in slide show view and be able to show two slides from
the present presentation at the same time.
2) He specifically wants to compare the figures from a 2008 slide to the
figures of a 2009 slide.
3) He wants the audience to see them side-by-side after he has show the two
slides individually.
Is there any third party software or VBA code that would allow this to happen?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[t-4-2]

I am not sure if this is a right answer. If not, some one will correct me.
On HOME tab, click Layout > choose Comparison. You can insert 2008 and 2009
slides side by side as one slide.
t-4-2

 

[Cosmo]

This is a snippet out of a program I use, you should be able to modify this
to do what you want. My setup puts one show above the other (the second one
is just blacked out in my circumstance), change it to use left/width instead
of top/height:

windowHeight = 400

With oPPTFile1.SlideShowSettings
With .Run
.View.PointerType = ppSlideShowPointerArrow
.Height = windowHeight
.Top = 0
End With
End With

With oPPTFile2.SlideShowSettings
With .Run
.Height = ScreenHeight - windowHeight
.Top = windowHeight
End With
End With

 

[LVTravel]

Does anyone know of a way to do the following that was asked by a
co-worker
recently?
They have both 2003 and 2007 PowerPoint.
1) They want to be in slide show view and be able to show two slides from
the present presentation at the same time.
2) He specifically wants to compare the figures from a 2008 slide to the
figures of a 2009 slide.
3) He wants the audience to see them side-by-side after he has show the
two
slides individually.
Is there any third party software or VBA code that would allow this to
happen?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!

The other two posters solutions may work, haven't tried their methods.

If you create the two slides and then save them using the SaveAs feature as
a .png file (one file for each slide) then create another slide and insert
the .png files as images on the third slide. Seems like the easiest way
without programming.

 

[Jugglertwo]

thanks to everyone for giving me several things to try. I will try each of
these when I get done with my meeting.
Thanks again!
Jugglertwo

 

[Cosmo]

I think I misunderstood the original question. My VBA solution would show 2
separate presentations side by side for comparison, not 2 slides from the
current presentation.