Re: Projection Problems
From: Ashurbanipal (ashurbanipal_at_canada.com)
Date: 03/02/04
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:59:32 -0500
Troy @ TLC wrote:
> SLIDESHOW >> SETUP SHOW >> have dropdown "show on" dialog set to
> PRIMARY (not SECOND PLUG & PLAY MONITOR).
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> In either version of PPT, you should set the computer's display
> settings to mirror output vs. extended desktop (with your monitors set
> to mirror PPT is not able to do anything but show the presentation on
> both monitors)
Aha... this is exactly what I want.
Can you explain briefly the purposes of the "show type" options?
-"Presented by a speaker (full screen"
-"Browsed by an individual (window)"
-"Browsed at a kiosk (full screen)"
hat I was trying to say: I tried all of these "show type" settings under
"set up show" with different options from the "show on" drop down menu
(including show on "primary") without success. As suspected, it has
something to do with multi-monitor setup...
The only thing that worked for me was "presented by a speaker (full
screen)" and "show on secondary monitor" under "set up show." No other
combination worked at all.
> - Also, you wrote, "when I depress the minimized second running copy
> of the program..." Could you further explain, I am not certain what is
> happening here (you have two presentations open and are switching
> between them?)
Now under the above-mentioned configuration of options, starting the
presentation by hitting F5 generated a second, minimized PP program
window in the taskbar (to run the presentation, which did project)
as if one had started the program twice and had two running
simultaneously.
The first and original window from which I generated the second by
hitting F5 always remained in edit mode. I had to depress the second
minimized copy of the program in the task bar and use the arrow keys to
advance slides -- I could not see the presentation on my laptop monitor,
and this prevented me from doing things like hitting hyperlinks (because
I couldn't see a cursor on the projection).
If I chose "presented by an individual" and "show on primary monitor"
I could see the presentation on my laptop monitor, but _it would not be
projected_ (only the desktop wallpaper would be projected). Obviously
it wasn't a projector hookup issue, since it would indeed project with
different ("secondary monitor") settings.
Sorry for my initial lack of clarity. I hope this will help describe my
exact problem. Any advice to fix this is greatly appreciated.
Now Bill mentioned he doesn't like mirror-monitors, but prefers to have
the laptop monitor "unfrozen" by the presentation to run searches, etc.
Is there any way that I can toggle the presentation "on" to hit
hyperlinks etc., and then toggle it "off" my laptop monitor so I can run
searches etc. without projecting them? This is my uber-question, and
what I would really like to know.
Also: are the settings to do all that different in PP2000/PP-XP? I
strangely recall PP2000 be much more "plug and play."
> - Go to your computers display settings >> SETTINGS tab >> make sure
> monitor two is set to mirror/not have 'extended desktop' or 'extend
> my windows desktop onto this monitor' activated (this setting varies
> depending on the graphics card in your computer, and sometimes based
> on its capabilities).
Do not click "extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor," gotcha.
(Sometimes I did, sometimes I didn't, didn't seem to affect the
problem?)
By not clicking this, both monitors should "mirror" each other, if I am
understanding (i.e., I haven't seen any mirror command under either
"set up show" or monitor "display properties." BTW: I am using the XP
OS on the laptop).
Thanks much for your assistance,
-A
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