About running a presentation on two monitors

Using Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows 2000, you can run your presentation from one monitor and let the audience view it on another monitor. This allows you to keep other programs running that the audience won't see, plus you have access to presenter view, which offers a variety of tools for making it easier to present.

Presenter view

  Slide thumbnails

  Displayed slide

  Start and End Show button

  Black screen button

  Preview of next text to appear

  Move forward or backward through the slide show by using these buttons

  Slide number (for example, Slide 7 of 12)

  Elapsed time since the start of the slide show

  Speaker's notes

In presenter view, icons and buttons are large enough to navigate easily, even when you are using an unfamiliar keyboard or mouse. Presenter view features the following:

• You can use the thumbnails to select slides out of sequence, creating a customized show for a given audience.
• Preview text ("Up Next") shows you what your next click will add to the screen, whether it's a new slide or the next bullet item.
• Speaker's notes are shown in large, clear type so that you can use them as a script for the presentation.
• You can black out the screen during a presentation, and then resume the presentation where you left off.

Before you can turn on dual monitor support, you must have the proper hardware installed according to the manufacturer's instructions. This support is available for Microsoft Windows 98 and Microsoft Windows 2000 desktop computers; it only is available for laptops running Windows 98.