Using Presenter View

Quick reference

• 00:03 There’s a lot to think about when you’re delivering a slideshow to the audience, such as what you’re currently speaking about, thinking
• 00:09 ahead of what’s on the next slide; you’re wondering whether the timing is going ok or if you’re being a little bit slow, or even if you’re
• 00:17 going to get interruptions and questions from the audience. Now presenter view, which I’ve enabled here on the slideshow tab of
• 00:24 PowerPoint, is a fantastic resource to help you deliver a presentation. I hit F5 and the arrangement that I have that you currently can’t
• 00:33 see is that presenter view is on my current computer. I have an external monitor hooked up but it might be a data projector or any kind of
• 00:40 arrangement. We can see a preview of the slide that the audience also sees and as we click, the audience get an instant update of what’s in this
• 00:49 slide. We get some features such as being able to show the taskbar on my computer, the display settings if I want to swap the views
• 00:57 around; we can end the slideshow or use the ESC key on the keyboard. We get the timing for the presentation so we know how we’re going.
• 01:05 We can pause the slideshow, particularly if it’s running automatically, or we can restart the timer if, say, another person gets up to present
• 01:13 another part of your presentation. Over here we can see the actual next animation so, as I click, this animation will come in on the slide and I
• 01:24 can see that the next slide contains a chart, as well as, we have the notes from the notes page, so that if all else fails and I forget what I’m
• 01:32 speaking about, we’ve got some prompts here that we can use. We have some pen options, so if I click, we can get a laser pointer, just to
• 01:40 highlight areas on the slide, or we can get a pen and draw some annotations on the slide or focus on a particular area if that helps. ESC key and
• 01:51 we go back to our arrow. Move along to the chart. We’ve got a little feature that allows us to see all of our slides if we need to quickly jump
• 02:01 over to a different slide. Click and it’s replaced. We can zoom in on a particular part of the presentation, move that around with the mouse,
• 02:09 hit ESC, and then we’re back to our full slide preview. We can blacken the screen if we want to go away and talk for a little while or answer
• 02:18 questions in between our presentation; clicking again brings it back or even the B key on the computer keyboard as well as some further
• 02:25 options. The most important feature and the one that I love is to hit the F1 key which is the help key, while you’re running a presentation. This is
• 02:34 great for rehearsal because you can learn all of those keyboard shortcuts that work, such as the B key which we currently mentioned to blacken
• 02:42 the screen out and B brings it back; we’ve got rehearsing and recording shortcuts, some media shortcuts, ink and laser pointer shortcuts,
• 02:51 particularly if you have a tablet, as well as touch, if you have a product such as Microsoft Surface. So presenter view is amazing. It will not
• 03:01 replace practice and a good presentation but it will certainly help. It’s well worth your time learning and practicing to help you present
• 03:10 better.

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