Mac Powerpoint 2011 forces presenter mode

[Rob Duncan]

Hi Bruce,

If your displays are *not* mirrored (ie. you see different images on each screen when *not* presentation mode), select:

Apple > System Preferences > Displays > Arrangement; Mirror Displays is unchecked

Then inside Powerpoint, select:
Slide Show (either Ribbon or Menu) > 'Set up show...' > Screen
Then select the screen without the white bar.

If you are mirrored, turn off mirroring first, or you it won’t show you 2 screens in the ‘Set up show…’ dialog.

Alternately, while you are in the presentation mode, move your mouse pointer to the extreme right of the laptop screen, and it should ‘appear’ on the left side of the TV screen (wiggle it around a bit in case it gets stuck in a corner. From there you can click the ‘switch displays’ button.

Good luck!
Rob.

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Freaky People Productions,
Live Event Technical Production
Toronto, CANADA
https://roki.ca/me

[Sarah Gates]

With regard to the presenter mode in 2011, I’ve just run face-first into a new (to me) problem with it. In 2008, the last version of office we used in house, presenter mode included a nice, sizable sidebar with thumbnails. For something like supertitles for an opera (my current challenge), this was exceedingly handy, especially in a show where the performers are prone to some… skipping about, shall we say? In this latest version, we seem to be restricted to a dock-style bar at the lower edge, collapsing when not moused over. Has anyone had any luck resizing or even locking that thumbnail bar in place? In order for it to be useful, as the old one was, it would be really handy if it were locked, resizable and multitouch scrollable – all things the old sidebar did well, and things I have had no luck convincing 2011 to do for me.

[Alex Percival]

Rob – Hopefully you can help me….

I have clicked on the ‘swap display’ icon in presenter mode, which now shows the audience my slide + next slide screen and timings and I have the full screen…. I cannot find a way to reverse it back…..

Any ideas?

Thanks Alex

[Rob Duncan]

That ‘swap display’ icon will be still be available on the 2nd screen (the one with the presenter view now on it).

Click it again, and it will flop back the way it was.

Alternately, if you have your computer set to dual screen output (mirroring off in the ‘Diplays’ Preference Panel):

1. Open Powerpoint.
2. Select ‘Slide Show’ > ‘Set Up Show…’ from the menu bar.
3. Push the button marked ‘Screen…’
4. The presenter screen will have a black highlight around it. Click the other screen.

If you do have mirroring turned on, you will only see a single screen in this dialog, and you will have to use the first option.

————–
Freaky People Productions,
Live Event Technical Production
Toronto, CANADA
https://roki.ca/me

[Anne Taylor]

So I am having the problem of the switched screens, but it only happens when I am hooked up to my projector. When I disconnect, I can see my presenter view just fine, but as soon as I connect to the projector, it switches.
I do not know how to access this mysterious “ribbon”. How do I get to this sub-menu underneath the usual Mac menu bar?
Any advice?

[Paul Walsh]

A THOUDAND THANK YOU’s !

I’m quite a newbie using my Mac on shows & encountered this problem just today. Thank heavens for Guru’s who show the way when Microsoft obfuscates the most important things …

[Marco Scala]

Rob!!!
You saved me from nerve crisis!! I hate this new “ribbon” interface MS adopted for its Office Sw, and the stupid thing is that I couldn’t find the icons on the right because of the reduced resolution of my macbook plugged into the external projector!

Now I can do slideshows both to attender in a room (with projector) AND to remote audience with WebEx!!!

Marco

[Joseph Getchel]

So, what I want to do with PowerPoint is to totally turn OFF Presenter View, and return to the way of displaying that is available in the Windows (2010) version.
I need to be able to type changes into a screen as that screen is displayed on the second monitor. This used to be easy before presenter view. And, no, mirror displays is NOT what I want/need.
I want the old way of displaying back – or at least make it like the Windows version where I can toggle Presenter View on or off with a checkbox on the ribbon.

[Rob Duncan]

What you’re describing is a feature of MS Office for PC, but I don’t think was ever possible on the Mac platform.

If you selected ‘display on 2nd monitor’, but unselected ‘use presenter view’, you can edit the slides live on Powerpoint for Windows. I don’t believe that the Mac version was ever able to keep the edit screen live while presenting on the other.

————–
Freaky People Productions,
Live Event Technical Production
Toronto, CANADA
https://roki.ca/me

[Gery Magalong]

Have you found a way to re-size the thumbnail bar yet?
Thanks