The power-point slide should be your notes. Overly wordy powerpoint
slides are confusing.
Phillip Good
author, "Common Errors in Statistics and How to Avoid Them"
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Subject: Re: Powerpoint tip - hitting right notes
From: Jay Warner at AT_T <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, September 16, 2011 7:35 am
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I'm pretty sure it is not "basic" knowledge for many PowerPoint users
(in Washington, DC, USA the overly adept ones are called PowerPoint
jockeys:), but what you describe is a potential feature of dual screens
- the projector shows one frame, while the computer shows another.
On a Macintosh using Keynote, the 'presenter view' has been available
since at least 2006 with a typical single command; it can be used
whether or not a second display is connected, so practice is much
easier. I love it - gives the presenter a view not only of the notes,
but the timing, the projected slide, and the next slide. If you develop
your presentation by more or less linear logic (I use the scientific
method - hypothesis, data collection & analysis to conclusions), the
presenter view allows you to hone the flow & logic, making you appear to
the audience as much more coagulated than even you thought. :)
Thank you for finding this in PowerPoint; now I can tell my Macintosh
challenged friends that they can do this display method, too.
Jay
(And, apology for posting this generally.)
On Sep 16, 2011, at 4:02:44 AM, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Search "presenter view" in Powerpoint Help for details and more
> features.
>
> 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
Jay Warner
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