Powerpoint Macbook
Linda Berens
When I go to 'share screen', the powerpoint presentation shows up ('presenter view' ) on my external monitor, and the powerpoint on my laptop screen....at this point, I cannot see the participants anymore.
Is there a way to do the presentation so that I can view my participants while still doing the powerpoint? ('presenter view' -so I can see my notes on one screen and 'regular slide show on the other screen) while still seeing the participants faces?
Yes, this is achievable. When screen sharing, your gallery view with the participants doesn't go away, but gets placed behind your prominent windows. By pressing your Expose button (F3) you'll see all your active windows and you can select the gallery and placed it where you see fit - either local or external monitor, and it shouldn't be placed back behind when you click on your Powerpoint.
It may not matter, but I think the best sequence to achieve your request is when you're in the meeting, go into presentation mode before screen sharing - this way you can assign presentation and presenter views to your local/external monitors by using the swap displays button in the top left of the presenter view screen - but also you have presentation mode as a share screen option. By doing this you may lose sight of your Zoom screen - you'll find it by Exposing (F3)
I opened powerpoint, and opened a recent presentation. The presentation did not appear. I went into mission control, and saw the window was there. When dragging the window into a new desktop, it simply rose to the top left (outside the desktop preview) and faded away. Look at the sequence of images, you'll see what i mean:
Have you tried going to the Display preferences and forcing the machine to detect displays (in case you had previously plugged into another display and the machine has not realized the 2nd display is not connected)?
First, be sure to tick the Show displays in menu bar checkbox in the Displays item on System Preferences, to get the menulet up and have instant access to all things display without having to fumble all the time.
Then, when an app goes offscreen, use the menulet to reduce the display resolution a size or two. This causes the OS to signal all apps that have open windows of the change so they can adjust accordingly. As per Apple's recommended Human Interface guidelines, the apps are mandated to constrain their windows to the visible area of the screen, and most do.
Once the windows get resized, you will have regained access to the whole of them and will be able to use the controls. Awkward two-step dance, I know, but certainly better than just staring helplessly at a piece of window covering the whole of the screen.
This solution did not work for me but I found that going to the Window menu in Powerpoint and selecting Zoom Window brought the off screen window back onto my MacBook's screen. I'm running OS 10.8.3 and PowerPoint 2011 version 14.3.2.
I just got a Macbook Pro Retina, and the PPT appeared as opened but not on the screen. I think this was because I opened PPT on a bigger screen and I forgot to put it back to fit mine. Anyhow...just clik on the powerpoint, make sure that it is on your top action bar, and click on "Slide Show", go down to "Set up show" and...Voila!.
I am just on the 14 day trial for storyline 3. I would like to import slides from powerpoint and am getting the 'failed to import' message. I have gone through the info page that this connects to and:
I'm glad you reached out as it sounds like you're stuck after going through some of the steps outlined in this article. Not to worry - we're here to help!
You mentioned working on a Mac with Powerpoint for Mac. Since Storyline is a desktop program compatible with Windows, your first step will be installing a Windows-based version of Office to access the Powerpoint import function. Reference Storyline's system requirements to ensure all programs are compatible.
Once you have that installed in the Windows environment, you can follow the steps to import your PowerPoint. Here is a quick tutorial! You should see your PowerPoint displayed in Story View as newly created Storyline slides.