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Present Powerpoint slides in window instead of full screen

Duncan Epping · May 7, 2019 ·

I just had to do a Zoom presentation (on a Macbook by the way) and one thing which always bugs me is that I need to run the presentation in full screen and can’t see the chat or Q&A. I like to address questions as I go during the presentation. I was going through the Powerpoint interface and noticed an option I had not noticed before. If you click on “Slideshow” and then “Set Up Slide Show” you can select “Browsed by an individual (window)”, this allows you to run the presentation within a window and have your chat and Q&A open next to the window. Very useful if you ask me. Figured I would share as it doesn’t seem common knowledge

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  1. Christopher Chandler says

    10 May, 2019 at 14:56

    Wow! Great find. Thanks! Cheers

  2. david says

    25 March, 2020 at 14:20

    Can you set this as the default? As opposed to having to click on that each time you start a presentation?

  3. ffbrb says

    15 September, 2020 at 13:56

    I never comment on things but this WAS A GEM… I searched for how to powerpoint in the window. This was the first thing that came up! Since I teach online… sometimes I want multiple things happening!!! — OMG… This was an amazing find!

  4. kateocoaching says

    29 September, 2020 at 18:35

    So helpful as I had exact same problem! Thanks!

  5. Bimble says

    7 October, 2020 at 17:02

    Except…as far as I can tell you can’t run this with presenter mode (i.e. sharing the slide window but with your notes and controls in another, unshared, window) and you loose all the in-presentation annotation options like pen, highlighter and laser pointer.

    • Duncan Epping says

      9 October, 2020 at 16:15

      correct, I personally don’t use those features today, but that is indeed the downside.

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO in the Cloud Infrastructure Business Group (CIBG) at VMware. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan co-authors the vSAN Deep Dive book series and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan also co-hosts the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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