To turn subtitles or captions on or off, select the Toggle Subtitles button. To make the screen black or to un-black the screen, Press b on the keyboard. To turn off the pen, laser pointer, or highlighter, press the Esc key. To point with a laser or write on your slides, point at the screen with the mouse and then select the Pen and laser pointer tool on the pop-up toolbar at the lower left. To move to the previous or next slide, select the Previous or Next arrow. To start using Presenter view, select Slide Show > Presenter View.

Using a laser pointer on your smartphone when presenting in PowerPoint Select the More slide show options button (which looks like three dots) and on the menu make sure Keep Slides Updated is checked. If you've already started your presentation and you want to make sure that setting is on, you can do that from Presenter view. You can turn this on by going to the Slide Show tab of the ribbon, selecting Set Up Slide Show, and checking the box for Keep slides updated. If you're using PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 you have the option to let your slides be updated by your team even as you're presenting so that you always have the up-to-the-minute changes. Traditionally once you've started your presentation your slides wouldn't update. If you're working with a team of people to create your slide deck it may be that changes are being made to the slides right up to the last minute.

On the Slide Show tab of the ribbon, clear the check box named Use Presenter View. If you want Presenter view turned off while you are showing your presentation to others: Tip: If you don't need to see the current slide in Presenter View at all, and would like your notes to be larger, drag that vertical separator line all the way to the left. What the notes look like in Presenter view To manually determine which screen shows your notes in Presenter view and which shows only the slides themselves, on the task bar at the top of Presenter view, select Display Settings, and then select Swap Presenter View and Slide Show. Swap the Presenter view and Slide view monitors See Using a laser pointer on your smartphone when presenting in PowerPoint for more information, including a brief video. You can use PowerPoint on your smartphone as a remote control to run your presentation and view your speaker notes. To hide or unhide the current slide in your presentation, select Black or unblack slide show. Press the Esc key when you want to turn off the pen, laser pointer, or highlighter. To point to or write on your slides as you present, select Pen and laser pointer tools. To view a detail in your slide up close, select Zoom into slide, and then point to the part you want to see.įor more details on zooming in, see Zoom in to part of a slide. Tip: You’ll see thumbnails of all the slides in your presentation (as shown below), making it easy to jump to a specific slide in the show.

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