I need help spanning a presentation to two monitors

Stephen Gunter

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Mar 17, 2003, 10:03:00 AM3/17/03

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Please help. I have an MX-400 dual VGA vid card but can't
figure out how to span between two monitors. A setting
perhaps? Thanks in advance.

Sonia

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Mar 17, 2003, 11:20:37 AM3/17/03

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Do you actually want the slides to span the two monitors, half a slide per
monitor, or do you want the slide show to play on a different monitor than
PowerPoint is on? What version of Windows do you have?
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Sonia Coleman, Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
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(Autorun CD Project Creator & Free Templates)
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Chirag

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Mar 17, 2003, 11:24:17 AM3/17/03

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Look at PowerShow addin from
http://officerone.tripod.com/powershow/powershow.html - it enables you to
span slide shows across multiple monitors.

- Chirag
http://officerone.tripod.com/

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Stephen Gunter

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Mar 17, 2003, 11:40:39 AM3/17/03

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I want the slide to span the two monitors. Running
WinXP. I don't want the slide on one monitor and PP on
another. Thanks for your quick reply.

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Sonia

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Mar 17, 2003, 12:10:13 PM3/17/03

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Then look at Chirag's add-in. It will do the trick.

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Stephen Gunter

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Mar 17, 2003, 1:42:51 PM3/17/03

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Do you know of any that don't cost money?

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Lars-Immo Krämer

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Mar 17, 2003, 3:56:31 PM3/17/03

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Hi Stephen,

Stephen Gunter wrote:
> Do you know of any that don't cost money?

I once had that happen unintendedly with PPT/2000 and an old S3 Virge MX+
video board, but don't remember how I did it and can't reproduce it. It will
depend on your hardware. However what you can do in any case (provided that
you have a dual view video board) is using Slide Show in a window:
1.) disable all toolbars except the standard
2.) set your video driver to dual view:
- goto Contro Panel | Display Properties | Settings tab
- click on the monitor no. 2 (you may have to actually connect the
second monitor to be able to do that)
- check 'Extend my Windows-Desktop to this Monitor'
- set same resolution to second monitor as first
- click OK
3.) in PPT goto Slide Show | Set Up Show..., check 'View by an
Individuum (Window)'
4.) start your show, do *not* maximize the window, use your mouse
to horizontally expand the window to cover both monitors and to
vertically fit.
5.) you must use the keyboard to advance.
HTH
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Lars-Immo

B

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Mar 17, 2003, 11:26:13 PM3/17/03

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There is always the option of writing one yourself in VBA. But, after
having to do some VBA programming, I'd recommend spending the money on
Chirag's add-in.

IF Budget.Value < varSanity THEN
GOTO It
ELSE
Money.Order = varCost
Budget.Value = Budget.Value - Money.Order
DOCMD.SendObject Money.Order, True
END IF

Just my opinion,
B

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