Display a quarter-size slide show view

That little slide show view really works, too. You can click on it to advance the slides, and press Esc to close it.

You won’t believe how easy it is to display the quarter-size view. Just press the Alt key as you click the Slide Show view icon That’s all there is to it! Then you can see both views at the same time.

Unfortunately, you can’t move the little Slide Show view and it does hide a good part of your working area, but it’s just a window, so as soon as you need to work in Normal view, click in that view and your Slide Show view disappears so that you can work.

But it isn’t gone; you’ve just minimized it and you can display it on top again by clicking its button on the Windows taskbar.

Even cooler, you can make your Normal view or Presenter View window narrower and display both windows side by side as you see above. Yes, you can resize the Presenter View window. Then you have your cake and eat it too, easily going back and forth between the two views.

So, next time you want to check something in Slide Show view or present online and need to see Slide Show view and Presenter View on the same screen, instead of pressing F5 or Shift-F5 (which starts Slide Show view at the current slide), or clicking the Slide Show icon, press Alt and the Slide Show icon and use that quarter-size view.

Thanks to my PowerPoint MVP friends for suggesting the online presenting use of the Quarter Size view.