open multiple PowerPoint files in separate applications

[Guest]

Does anyone know if there is a way to get PowerPoint to behave similar to
Word in opening each presentation ina separate application? If you open
multiple Word documents you get each in a separate application window. If
you open multiple PowerPoint presentation they all open in a single
application window.

If you have multiple montiors, Word makes it easy to have a separate
appliction window on each monitor desktop. With PowerPoint the only way to
make this work is to stretch the application window across both monitors.
Very clumsy method.

 

[Guest]

Try Window > Cascade in the tool bar. Does that help?

 

[Michael Koerner]

PowerPoint is a single application program. Sorry

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


| Does anyone know if there is a way to get PowerPoint to behave similar to
| Word in opening each presentation ina separate application? If you open
| multiple Word documents you get each in a separate application window. If
| you open multiple PowerPoint presentation they all open in a single
| application window.
|
| If you have multiple montiors, Word makes it easy to have a separate
| appliction window on each monitor desktop. With PowerPoint the only way to
| make this work is to stretch the application window across both monitors.
| Very clumsy method.

 

[Guest]

All that does is spread the two presentation windows within a SINGLE
application window. Does not solve the orginal question.

 

[Craig A]

On XP, use 'runas' to run a second instance of Powerpoint.

1) Open the Start Menu->...>Powerpoint and holding the Shift key,
right-click the Powerpoint icon
2) Select 'Run as...'
2) Select a different user account (it could be a local account on your
computer)

Now you should be able to have 2 separate PP windows on each monitor.

Whoever suggested stretching the single instance window across the 2
monitors obviously never tried it. It is a totally non-optimal solution.

Whoever designed this "feature" ought to be beat with a wet noodle.

Craig

 

[Craig A]

Whoever suggested stretching the single instance window across the 2
monitors obviously never tried it. It is a totally non-optimal solution.

Sorry about that, I just realized that it was the original poster that
talked about stretching and said it was clumsy. I confused this with a
different post I had read earlier today when I was looking for the solution
to this - they had proposed stretching.

 

[Guest]

Great tip to get around a missing feature. Funny that they offer it in
Excel, Outlook, etc. but not in Powerpoint.

 

[Emma]

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU CRAIG!!!!!