The following tutorial provides step-by-step instructions to use PowerViewer.

When using PowerViewer for the first time, you may need to tell PowerViewer the path to the free Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer that you installed on the machine.

The free PowerPoint Viewer 2010 can be downloaded from here and PowerPoint Viewer 2007 can be downloaded from here.

Follow these steps to confirm that the path to PowerPoint Viewer on your machine is set properly:

Step 1: Select the Settings tab.

Step 2: Check the PowerPoint Viewer box. It should show the full path to the PowerPoint Viewer file name (pptview.exe).

Step 3: If the box is empty, click the box next to it. Locate and select the PowerPoint Viewer 2003 file (pptview.exe) from the folder where you had installed it.

After setting up PowerViewer, you can use it for displaying slide shows and access all the features of PowerViewer. The following steps show how to set up a presentation to show continuously:

Step 1: Select the Presentations tab.

Step 2: Click Add... button. Locate and select your presentation file and click Open button.

Step 3: You would find your presentation file listed in the Presentation file box:

Step 4: Click Start Show button.