The option is then no longer highlighted. Then once you get back to your slide show, you can click the Show Taskbar option again to hide the taskbar. It can be useful to have access to the taskbar if you need to access any open application.You'll then find that the option is now highlighted as shown in Figure 4, below.įigure 4: Show Taskbar option gets highlighted on clicking Click once to make the taskbar available. Show Taskbar: A toggle that alternates between showing your Window taskbar.We explain all these features, and more next, as marked below in Figure 3. Additionally, you have easy access to the Laser Pointer tool, which directs the audience’s eye with a bright-colored point of light. Also you have dedicated Pause, Resume and Restart buttons to give you more control over slide timings. Notice that PowerPoint 2019's Presenter View has an enhanced Web 2.0 style interface and there are many other features in the Presenter view's console such as zooming onto a specific part of the slide, and then panning across the slide area. This brings up PowerPoint 2019's Presenter View, as previously shown in Figure 1. Click the last icon and from the resultant menu choose the Show Presenter View option (see Figure 2 again).įigure 2: Show Presenter View option to be selected Hover your cursor over the bottom left area of the slide to find six watermarked navigation icons that you can see in Figure 2. If you are using only a single display, you can still choose to change to Presenter view from within Slide Show view. We show you how you can swap displays using the Display Settings option, later in this tutorial. You should however still check and ensure that this view shows up on your primary display and not on the secondary display. While Presenter view in older versions of PowerPoint had to be manually turned on, newer versions of PowerPoint automatically detect if you have two displays, and turn on Presenter view. Rest assured that the audience viewing the projector or secondary output only sees the slide!įigure 1: Presenter view in PowerPoint 2019 Notice that you get to see much more than just the slide. However, you see Presenter view on the laptop or on the primary display.įigure 1, below shows Presenter view. The projector or the secondary display then shows the actual slides, in what is commonly called Slide Show view. This view is beneficial in an environment that has at least two displays such as a laptop and a projector, or even two monitors attached to your desktop system. Presenter View in PowerPoint 2019 for Windows is a purpose-built view that accompanies Slide Show view.

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