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View your slide show in a smaller window so you can see another presentation or program

July 9, 2012 by Ellen Finkelstein 8 Comments

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Sometimes you might want to display your presentation in Slide Show view in a way that doesn’t take up the entire screen. For example, let’s say that you are delivering a presentation and want to switch between applications. (You can press Alt + Tab, but that’s a little clunky and if you have many applications open, it can get confusing.)

powerpoint-tips-view-slide-show-in-smaller-window-1There’s an easy way to accomplish this:

  1. Click the Slide Show tab and choose Set Up Slide Show.
  2. In the Set Up Show dialog box, in the Show Type section, choose Browsed by an Individual (Window).
  3. Click OK.
  4. Go into Slide Show view. Instead of taking up the entire screen, your presentation is in a resizable window. You can easily switch among other applications

To switch back to full screen, choose the Presented by a Speaker (Full Screen) option in the same dialog box.

Another method is to go into “Reading View.” Either click the Reading View icon at the bottom-right of the screen — just to the left of the Slide Show icon — or go to View, Reading View.

When you aren’t delivering a presentation but just want to check animation and navigation, you can view the presentation in a quarter-size slide show. This option displays a quarter-size slide show view. For more information, see my tip on that topic.

 

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Related posts:

  1. Using a window instead of full screen for Slide Show view
  2. Display a quarter-size slide show view
  3. Add notes in PowerPoint in Slide Show view
  4. How to zoom into a slide and choose another slide in Slide Show view–PowerPoint 2013

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This was a great and timely tip Ellen! I was just looking for information on how to do that. I knew it could be done, I had done it before but could not remember exactly how.

Thanks for your help!

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Richard Wong
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Thanks for the tip. I clicked the individual browse and was not able to resize. After that, I clicked on the view function on the toolbar and clicked on the icon showing a tiled format. That allowed me to work on the Powerpoint while seeing another program but as soon as I tried to work on the other image’s program, the Powerpoint disappeared and only again reappeared when I clicked on the Powerpoint icon at the bottom of my screen. Any way to keep both programs working?

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Ellen
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Which version of Windows are you using? And which version of PowerPoint? I can’t think of any other variable that might affect this.

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I have read so many articles or reviews regarding the blogger lovers however this article is
genuinely a good paragraph, keep it up.

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Hi, thanks for brining up the amazing Ubuntu release. This is one of the coolest releases and i have it setup on my computer at home. the only issue is outdated nvidia driver.

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Thank you Ellen , It was very helpful .

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Presenter view is a key slide show-based view that you can use while delivering your presentation. By using two monitors, you can run other programs and view speaker notes that your audience cannot see.

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Did not work for me. Stayed on full screen?

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