Mac Powerpoint 2011 forces presenter mode

[Mark Winiarski]

I know it’s a bit old, but as somebody who is suffering from this problem as well!
I thought i needed to chime in and say this is incorrect. back in the previous version prior to 2008, there is a version called officeX ( I’m not selling my copy or my iBook(s) ). which unfortunately is only PowerPC and it will not work on Intel Macs. but to come back to the point, it operated just like the Windows equivalent. the only downside is there was no “task bar” to switch between running “app” Windows, however there is third-party software to switch between the running “app” Windows. and the OS X dock is an applications switcher and is not a “app” window switcher.

somewhere along the lines they came out with a Intel version that had a checkbox in the preferences?
however it is nonexistent as to what version it was.
as soon as they hit their fun with the ribbon there was a brief version of fun that had a really nice and functional ribbon ( 2007 on win, Mac ??? ), and then came another plunder and pillage and it was gone and replaced with a unorganized ribbon of mass!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Leandro Martins]

Hello,

I know this is an old post but I thought I’d give t a try.

It seems I’m facing the opposite problem: I’m using PowerPoint:Mac 2011 with an iMac with a second monitor and need to only see the presentation on one of the screens and NO presentation notes on the other, which I need to keep to use with other applications. I other words, I only need to see the slides in full screen on one monitor, but whenever I choose to show the presentation, the soft takes over the 2 monitors.

Any solutions?

Thanks a lot!

[Michael Polda]

This is an old post so I don’t know if anyone will see this. The above solution worked, but only within PowerPoint itself. In other words, PowerPoint slides are mirrored on the projector. However, if I cmd-tab to another application the projector is NOT mirroring and I see only the wallpaper for a second monitor even though the display setting in System Preferences is set to mirror. It’s like PowerPoint overrides the system preference and turns off mirroring then fakes it by outputting slides to both monitors. Since I often switch back and forth between apps during a presentation this doesn’t work. I’ve been forced to open my files with Keynote as a workaround. Any suggestions?