PPT 2007/2003 Presenter Clock? 2007 Player?

[W. eWatson]

I would guess there might be a PPT player for 2007. I prepared my pitch
with 2007, but my laptop has 2003. When I converted the 2007 to 2003,
there were a few wrinkles in the result. Easily correctable. However, if
there's a 2007 player, I could use that on my laptop.

I have a feeling that there's a clock of some sort that a presenter can
watch to make sure he is keeping pace with the allotted time?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I would guess there might be a PPT player for 2007. I prepared my pitch
with 2007, but my laptop has 2003. When I converted the 2007 to 2003,
there were a few wrinkles in the result. Easily correctable. However, if
there's a 2007 player, I could use that on my laptop.

There's a 2010 Viewer, which amounts to the same thing only better. MS
says it's feature compatible with 2007/2010 except for a few things (no
macros, OLE linking and such isn't supported and I forget what else).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-
4615-9951-294eeb832823

(If that doesn't work, just plug Powerpoint 2010 viewer into google and
follow the first hit)

I have a feeling that there's a clock of some sort that a presenter can
watch to make sure he is keeping pace with the allotted time?

If your laptop has true multimonitor support, you can use Presenter View
(full PPT only, not the viewer, I'm pretty sure); that shows the slide
presentation on the projector, your notes + the current slide on the laptop
display, along with a clock and thumbnails of the next and previous slides.
Quite nice.

 

[W. eWatson]

There's a 2010 Viewer, which amounts to the same thing only better. MS
says it's feature compatible with 2007/2010 except for a few things (no
macros, OLE linking and such isn't supported and I forget what else).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=cb9bf144-1076-
4615-9951-294eeb832823

(If that doesn't work, just plug Powerpoint 2010 viewer into google and
follow the first hit)


If your laptop has true multimonitor support, you can use Presenter View
(full PPT only, not the viewer, I'm pretty sure); that shows the slide
presentation on the projector, your notes + the current slide on the laptop
display, along with a clock and thumbnails of the next and previous slides.
Quite nice.

Thanks.
I think I stumbled on to 2010 Viewer the other day. It made it possible
for me to run ppt 2007 slides on my laptop, which has 2003 installed.

I stumbled onto the presenter view, but nixed it, since my pitch was for
last night. I just brought a desktop clock.

I've given occasional PPT pitches over the last several years with my
Epson S3 projector. I hadn't given one since last summer. Several days
ago when I was getting back in the groove with the S3, I stumbled around
with dual window idea. Things were not working right, but I finally got
a firm grip on it, which I duly wrote down.

It's a daunting task trying to grasp what's going on so the pitch will
go smoothly. I have yet to see a source that really gives the full story
on what to do. One thing I noticed is that my Gateway laptop manual
hardware gave just the opposite view from the S3 manual on the order of
turning on equipment. In the past people have suggested using Fn+F5 to
juggle the screens. I finally discovered on my laptop it's F4. Further,
screen management is different from running ppt than a DVD. Probably a
good tip to use is set up the laptop so that you can see what's on the
projection screen while fumbling with matters. Because of table
arrangements, I had the equipment set up the opposite way, and had to
twist my neck to see what was happening. Ah, well.

Anyway, it's over with, and hopefully my notes will carry the day the
next time.