Re: Practice presentation using the Presenter View and one monitor

Thanks for your help. I had also searched the web for a tool that would give
me a second virtual desktop/view but was unsuccessful. Please let me know
how your "build" goes.
Phil B

"Chirag" wrote:

> It is possible to create a "virtual" secondary monitor. Rather than create
> one myself, I was hoping NetMeeting would help here. But it doesn't seem to.
> Some background on my experiment: NetMeeting operates by creating a virtual
> monitor and instructs applications to paint the windows on that monitor.
> Whatever gets painted on that monitor is intercepted by NetMeeting and sent
> across the wire. The part that I was interested in was NetMeeting creates the
> virtual monitor even when it is not in a conference call. I was hoping to get
> PowerPoint to use the virtual monitor for the slide show and primary monitor
> for presenter view. PowerPoint rightly sees the second monitor in the
> presence of NetMeeting but somehow it is not able to use it as a real monitor
> for slide shows. Seems like I need to build one.
>
> - Chirag
>
> PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
> http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
>
> "Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:VA.00001936.b7d28d7e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > In article <11A1ADAB-487F-4C0C-8D7F-5CA86F5C6738@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Phil B wrote:
> >> I want to practice my presentation on my laptop when away from the office
> >> (airplane, hotel room) when my secondary monitor (projector) is not available
> >> and use the presenter view (as that will be the method during the
> >> presentation). The edit mode is not useful as I use many overlapping
> >> elements on one slide and can not see the animation order and my notes at the
> >> same time. Isn't there a way to display the presenter view with only one
> >> monitor so that practice sessions can be rehearsed?
> >
> > Y'know, that's one heck of a good idea.
> > I think in theory it'd just be a matter of switching primary and secondary
> > monitors to confuse PPT into putting the presenter view on the built in,
> > physically present, pretending to be secondary monitor.
> >
> > Hey Chirag? What do you think? (Chirag's our resident wizard at this stuff)
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
> > PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
> > PPTools: www.pptools.com
> > ================================================
> >
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