Thumbnails visible during slideshow

[Guest]

When I present a slideshow using a digital projector with PP in Presenter's
view, the first few thumbnails are present on the left of the laptop screen.
After 10 or so slides the thumbnail is replaced by a blank with a small logo
in the centre and do not refresh. How do I cure this? My presentations
average 180-200 slides, each about 1 mg. I have uprated the RAM from 512 to
1 gig but that didn't help.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

I'll assume you are using dual screens with one set to the presentation and
the other set to the edit view.

The thumbnails are rendered when the system 'isn't busy'. The trouble is
that when a presentation is running, the system considers itself busy,
regardless of RAM or speed of the system. You can easily update the display
thumbnails by clicking on the edit view, waiting a second (for the system to
realize it isn't busy and refresh the thumbnails), then clicking on the
resume slideshow button. Keep in mind that sometimes, when you break out of
the show the edit view will no longer stay sync'd with the presentation.

Alternately, you can use presenter view, where the thumbnails are kept
current. Personally, I do not can for presenter's view, but I know there
are times where it is the correct solution. In the Slideshow => Setup
slideshow dialog box, there is a checkbox option to use this feature. Give
it a try and report back to us.


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[Guest]

Bill -thanks. I'm actually using PP in Presenter's view on my laptop and the
presentation is through a projector to a screen. Yes I have tried clicking
on the thumbnail area, but then I can't get back to the synchronised
presentation without closing the talk and reopening.