Ah, the ubiquitous ppt!
Edward Tufte, among others has reservations:
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/powerpoint
Whatever your own preferences, it makes interesting reading.
BW
Quentin
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Dr Quentin L Burrell
Honorary Research Fellow
Isle of Man International Business School
On 16 Sep 2011, at 10:02, Allan Reese (Cefas) wrote:
> Not a statistical issue, but a tool in very common use. Unless I've
> been deaf and blind for years, I've never heard this feature mentioned
> or seen it used.
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>
> Powerpoint enables you to make slides and write notes to go with each
> slide. But in "slide show" mode you don't see your notes, and the same
> slide appears on the PC screen and the attached projector. Most
> frustrating, as the presenter clearly needs the notes while the audience
> sees the slide.
>
>
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> If (in PP 2007, 2010) you open the "slide show" *tab* (instead of the
> "view" tab or clicking the slide show icon) and check "Use presenter
> view", Powerpoint shows the slide on one screen and splits the second to
> show the notes, current slide and thumbnails of the others - and even
> adds a clock. You may have to fiddle with PC parameters to activate the
> second display, but our standard laptops do support dual screens. Just
> to show nothing's perfect, you can't run through the slides in
> "presenter mode" when the second display is not connected.
>
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> Search "presenter view" in Powerpoint Help for details and more
> features.
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> I'm quite prepared to be told this is basic knowledge and used
> everywhere else. :-) However, knowing about it may also encourage
> people to add notes to their slide shows when making them available
> online.
>
>
>
> Allan
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