Just had my first experience with mac:office 2011, and can confirm the following: If you: 1) take a Macbook Pro and set to 'mirror' 2) Load Powerpoint 2011 3) Press either 'Play' or 'Presenter Mode' (same behaviour results) 4) Powerpoint forces the computer into dual-screen (non-mirrored) mode, and plonks the presenter view onto one of the screens. Yes, there is an option at the top of the presenter screen to 'swap display', which will flip the two outputs, but there is no option that I can see to present in mirror mode.

This is completely non-nonsensical. Presenter view is not new to Powerpoint:mac, indeed it has been part of Powerpoint since 2004. It's always been an option to turn it on.

Why is there now no option to turn it off? Changing the screen output without an option to disable it can cause projectors and scalers to lose their alignment, and can lead to huge headaches in AV staging production. Anyone here experience this issue, or have a solution/workaround? Tried to file a bug with MS, but came up against a payment window. Not really willing to pay $99 for the opportunity to ask them for a solution. Freaky People Productions, Live Event Technical Production Toronto, CANADA.

Alright, I have been educated in the way of Microsoft. Turns out, they have a 'Slide Show' menu in the menu bar, and ANOTHER 'Slide Show' menu in the ribbon interface they love to talk about (it's the sub-menu underneath the usual Mac menu bar).

Turns out that in each of these 2 'Slide Show' menus are different options. 1) open the ribbon 'Slide Show' 2) on the right is an option to present cloned (or mirrored), or with the presenter display. NOTE: this option does not appear in the Preferences, 'Set up show' dialog or the real 'Slide show' menu, like you'd expect. In case you're curious, 'The Ribbon is part of the Microsoft Office Fluent user interface and is designed to help you quickly find the commands that you need to complete a task. Commands are organized in logical groups.' Like putting the 'Master Slides' under 'View' instead of 'Design' - Freaky People Productions, Live Event Technical Production Toronto, CANADA. Well, one side-effect of forcing Presenter View even when the computer is Mirrored (or Cloned in PC-speak) will be that more and more presenters will insist on having their presenter notes visible on confidence monitors, etc.

Goodbye laptop playback. We've had good success loading a Mac Mini with dual-boot capabilities and using it's dual outputs to send both presenter view and presentation view out simultaneously using Powerpoint Windows, Powerpoint Mac and Keynote. Freaky People Productions, Live Event Technical Production Toronto, CANADA. I'm not sure. On my screen, selecting 'Slide Show' on the ribbon menu gives me a set of icons on the right, like this: I haven't checked this without a secondary monitor attached yet, as I'm currently in show.

Perhaps the option doesn't show unless the 2nd screen is attached? The default is presenter view, and selecting 'Mirror Show' will switch the computer into the mode you want when you play the slide show. Cmd-Enter to play from current slide or Cmd-Shift-Enter to play from the start. Freaky People Productions, Live Event Technical Production Toronto, CANADA.

All, Found the solution to this while working an event last night. On the MAC version of Office 2k11 Make sure you resolution is something widescreen or stretched (1440x900), only when this resolution is up select slide show in the ribbon (the line of 'short cuts' between the design area and the file menus at the top). ONLY when you have a wide screen resolution selected was I able to reveal the Mirror displays / Presenter view icons (under slide show ribbon, right hand side). Click Mirror displays and it will stay persistent after reboots, different files, etc. Thanks, Mathew Slack PSAV Presentation Services Whistler, Canada.

Yeah, Matt you're right. If you are running Powerpoint:Mac in a less than fullscreen environment, there are likely hidden ribbon options off to the right. Of course, there are no visual indications that you're missing anything, so you could be banging your head against the keyboard for a while. Don't worry: this behaviour is consistent across Excel and Word, so if you're wondering why you can drop down the box border selector in Excel, it's because MS has efficiently streamlined your workflow. Even more tricky?

The icons and items pop on and off quite dynamically in Excel and Word, so you don't just lose the right-most icons, but whichever icons the UI staff at MS felt were least important to them. My only advice? Click the 'maximize' button whenever you feel frustrated. Just don't ask me to explain why the box border selector is in the 'Font' sub-ribbon of the Home ribbon. Freaky People Productions, Live Event Technical Production Toronto, CANADA. When I hook my MBP to my TV via an HDMI cable and run a PowerPoint in Presenter mode things are seemingly backwards.

The presenter screen appears on the TV and the PwrPnt presentation itself appears on the computer. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I've fiddled with both slide show menus and tried every I can think of to reverse the screens. The swap display button is on the TV and the cursor in on the computer screen.

How can I get to see the presenter screen on my computer and have the presentation on the TV? Is there a shortcut key combo for swap display? Thanks BCMCF. Hi Bruce, If your displays are.not.

mirrored (ie. You see different images on each screen when.not. presentation mode), select: Apple System Preferences Displays Arrangement; Mirror Displays is unchecked Then inside Powerpoint, select: Slide Show (either Ribbon or Menu) 'Set up show.' Screen Then select the screen without the white bar.

If you are mirrored, turn off mirroring first, or you it won't show you 2 screens in the 'Set up show.' Alternately, while you are in the presentation mode, move your mouse pointer to the extreme right of the laptop screen, and it should 'appear' on the left side of the TV screen (wiggle it around a bit in case it gets stuck in a corner. From there you can click the 'switch displays' button. Freaky People Productions, Live Event Technical Production Toronto, CANADA. With regard to the presenter mode in 2011, I've just run face-first into a new (to me) problem with it. In 2008, the last version of office we used in house, presenter mode included a nice, sizable sidebar with thumbnails. For something like supertitles for an opera (my current challenge), this was exceedingly handy, especially in a show where the performers are prone to some.

Skipping about, shall we say? In this latest version, we seem to be restricted to a dock-style bar at the lower edge, collapsing when not moused over. Has anyone had any luck resizing or even locking that thumbnail bar in place? In order for it to be useful, as the old one was, it would be really handy if it were locked, resizable and multitouch scrollable - all things the old sidebar did well, and things I have had no luck convincing 2011 to do for me.

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So, what I want to do with PowerPoint is to totally turn OFF Presenter View, and return to the way of displaying that is available in the Windows (2010) version. I need to be able to type changes into a screen as that screen is displayed on the second monitor. This used to be easy before presenter view. And, no, mirror displays is NOT what I want/need.

I want the old way of displaying back - or at least make it like the Windows version where I can toggle Presenter View on or off with a checkbox on the ribbon. I know it's a bit old, but as somebody who is suffering from this problem as well!

I thought i needed to chime in and say this is incorrect. Back in the previous version prior to 2008, there is a version called officeX ( I'm not selling my copy or my iBook(s) ). Which unfortunately is only PowerPC and it will not work on Intel Macs. But to come back to the point, it operated just like the Windows equivalent. The only downside is there was no 'task bar' to switch between running 'app' Windows, however there is third-party software to switch between the running 'app' Windows.

And the OS X dock is an applications switcher and is not a 'app' window switcher. Somewhere along the lines they came out with a Intel version that had a checkbox in the preferences? However it is nonexistent as to what version it was. As soon as they hit their fun with the ribbon there was a brief version of fun that had a really nice and functional ribbon ( 2007 on win, Mac???

), and then came another plunder and pillage and it was gone and replaced with a unorganized ribbon of mass!!!!!!!!!!!! This is an old post so I don't know if anyone will see this. The above solution worked, but only within PowerPoint itself. In other words, PowerPoint slides are mirrored on the projector. However, if I cmd-tab to another application the projector is NOT mirroring and I see only the wallpaper for a second monitor even though the display setting in System Preferences is set to mirror. It's like PowerPoint overrides the system preference and turns off mirroring then fakes it by outputting slides to both monitors.

Since I often switch back and forth between apps during a presentation this doesn't work. I've been forced to open my files with Keynote as a workaround. Any suggestions?

Has for editing and viewing presentations, and Presenter View is one of them. This view has been completely overhauled for this version, and in PowerPoint 2011, Presenter View no longer requires two displays. This is great since you can test this view without working on a dual display environment (such as a laptop-projector combo workspace). Of course, the actual reason for Presenter View's existence is still for two displays, and you can continue using it that way. To access the Presenter View, you can choose either of these options:.

Choose the View Master Slide Master menu option. Navigate to the Slide Show tab of the, locate the Presenter Tools group, and click the Presenter View button. When you launch Presenter View in either a single or dual display environment, you see the window shown in Figure 1. If you use a dual display, your second display will show the presentation in. Figure 1: Presenter View Presenter View is split into a quadrant; the four sections of this quadrant are explained below: A. Audience view This area shows the slide which will be displayed on the projector (or the second display).

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Next slide This area displays the next slide of the presentation. Slide notes This area displays the Slide notes for the active slide. Meeting notes Here you can type meeting notes as the presentation is being shown, great if you receive some feedback from the audience. Once you save and close the presentation, these meeting notes are appended to the Slide notes. Enhance idle/away settings for mac. Tip: If you are adding Meeting notes during a presentation, remember to save the presentation before closing it! In addition to the quadrant explained above, there are three buttons located at the top:.

Swap Displays: If you end up seeing Presenter view on your projected output or another dual display, click this button to switch which display shows Presenter view. The other display automatically displays (audience view). Tips: Click this button to display keyboard shortcuts you can use in Presenter view.

Exit Show: Click to end the slide show. If you want to display a particular slide within your show, just move the cursor to the bottom of the Presenter View, and a hidden gallery of your slides appears instantly (highlighted in red in Figure 2). Now just click the slide you want to display, if you have too many slides, this area also includes a scrollbar. Figure 2: Gallery of slides within the Presenter View See Also: You May Also Like:. Pictures in Presentations Is a picture is worth a thousand words?

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