powerpoint shows one slide ahead on PC while current slide on lar.

[Guest]

As I do a lot of presentations I often use a presentation that I have not
used in a while. Needless to say I do not always remember exacly what is
coming up. I thought that it would be great to have a fewture that allows me
to see the upcoming slide on my PC screen while the audience is looking at
the big screen showing the slide that I am actually making reference to.

What do you guys think??

cheers

Martin

 

[Sonia]

Presenter's View might serve your needs. Have you tried it? Go to Slide Show >
Set Up Show and set it to display the Presenter's View.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Someone else asked about this a while ago. I came up with a little macro
that puts a bar at the bottom of each slide with the title of the next
slide. If you put this macro into your presentation, you can put a button
on the first slide. When you click the button, it puts a "footer" on each
slide with the title of the next slide in it. Here's the macro:

Sub Footerize()
Dim i As Long
Dim shp As Shape
Dim hasFooter As Boolean
Dim newFooterBox As Shape

For i = 1 To ActivePresentation.Slides.Count - 1
hasFooter = False
For Each shp In ActivePresentation.Slides(i).Shapes
If shp.Name = "MyVeryOwnFooter" Then
hasFooter = True
End If
Next
If hasFooter = True Then
ActivePresentation.Slides(i).Shapes("MyVeryOwnFooter") _
.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = _
ActivePresentation.Slides(i + 1).Shapes(1) _
.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
Else
Set newFooterBox = _
ActivePresentation.Slides(i).Shapes.AddShape _
(msoTextOrientationHorizontal, 0#, 504#, 720#, 28.875)
newFooterBox.Name = "MyVeryOwnFooter"
newFooterBox.TextFrame.TextRange.Text = _
ActivePresentation.Slides(i + 1).Shapes(1) _
.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
newFooterBox.TextFrame.TextRange.Font.Size = 10
newFooterBox.TextFrame.TextRange.ParagraphFormat.Alignment _
= ppAlignCenter
End If
Next i
End Sub

Of course, this only works well if the title placeholder is used for each
slide. Also, the color, size, and location of the "footer" can be easily
changed to make it less obtrusive.

--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Guest]

In my case, I like how the previous version of powerpoint's presenter view
had a coming up next section for the next bullet or slide title, whichever
applied.

Andrew