How do I see the notes on my laptop while the audience sees the slide show?
How do I see formatted notes on my laptop while the audience sees the slide show?

Many times you would want to use your laptop as a prompter while the audience sees the slide show on the projector (beamer). You would want to display the speaker notes on the laptop when the slide show is running. The PowerShow add-in offers you to view the notes for the shows on a different monitor. The notes are kept synchronized with the slide that is being projected to the audience.

The following configuration steps enable you to set this up with PowerShow with slide show on the secondary monitor and the native PowerPoint notes view on the primary monitor (usually the laptop):

1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint.
    

2. Select View | Notes Page item to view the notes page. You will now see the slide and the notes corresponding to it. Normally, the notes page is in portrait mode. You might want to change it to landscape mode by following these steps:

   PowerPoint 2007	PowerPoint 2003, 2002, 2000
   Select Design tab | Page Setup button. Select Landscape option in the Notes, handouts & outline group. Click OK button.	Select File | Page Setup... menu item. Select Landscape option in the Notes, handouts & outline group. Click OK button.

   
   

3. Select Slide Show | Power Show item.
    
4. On the Presentations tab, set up the configuration as follows:
   1. Select <Skip Monitor> and 1 monitor.
   2. Select your presentation <Slide Show> in the second row and 1 monitor.
       
5. On the Session tab, do the following:
   1. Place a check against Slide design view follows slide show box.
   2. Clear Show Slide Thumbnail box.
   3. Clear Show Next Slide Thumbnail box.
   4. Clear Full Screen Session Controller box.
   5. Clear Slide show follows slide sorter view box. The dialog box should look like the following:
      
      
       
6. Click Start Show button.

This configuration will enable you to see notes on the primary monitor through the normal PowerPoint views and see the slide show on the secondary monitor.

The PowerShow SlideShow Navigator toolbar is created when PowerShow Session starts. If you don't see this toolbar, select View | Toolbars | PowerShow SlideShow Navigator menu item to show it. The PowerShow SlideShow Navigator toolbar allows you to control the slide show running through the projector.

The landscape setup for notes page also changes the configuration for handouts. If this is not desirable, then you can replace the step 2 above with the following step 2:

2. Select View | Normal menu item to view the notes page. Resize the notes pane at the bottom of the slide to ensure that the slide notes are seen completely and clearly. You might want to magnify the notes by following these steps:

   1. Click on the notes in the notes pane.
   2. Select View | Zoom... menu item.
   3. Select a higher value to magnify the notes.
   4. Click OK button.

The rest of the steps remain the same.

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