With widescreen laptops and LCDs becoming popular, there is a lot of horizontal space available for designing slides. Microsoft Office PowerPoint provides some layouts for that - task panes on the right, slide/outline view on the left, etc.

ProTools for PowerPoint enhances it further by introducing a new Widescreen View that is chiefly targeted towards being able to design slides and write notes for it side-by-side. In Widescreen View, ProTools for PowerPoint creates 2 windows for the current presentation and lays them beside each other horizontally with both windows together occupying the entire width. It also keeps these 2 windows always in-sync with each other. Each window is put in the Normal view to begin with and you can change the view to any of the PowerPoint views (Normal, Notes Page, Slide Sorter) you wish. This allows you to see any 2 views of a presentation side-by-side. For instance, you can now view:

1. Notes Page and the Slide (Normal) views side-by-side. This allows you to quickly review all the notes with the slides.
2. Slide and Slide Sorter view side-by-side. When you navigate in the slide sorter view, ProTools for PowerPoint, keeps the Slide view synchronized with it.
3. Slide view with notes section enlarged and Slide Sorter view side-by-side.

The Widescreen View is turned OFF automatically when you close the presentation or close windows of the presentation.

You can access the Widescreen View as follows:

1. Open the presentation in Microsoft Office PowerPoint. The Widescreen View works the best when you have only 1 presentation opened.
    
2. In PowerPoint 2007, select the View tab, click the Widescreen button in ProTools Views group:
   
   
   In PowerPoint 2003 and previous versions, the Widescreen View menu item is available in ProTools menu:
   
    
3. Click Widescreen button or Widescreen View menu item to get ProTools for PowerPoint create 2 windows side-by-side for your current presentation.
    

4. Both these windows will have the same presentation in Normal view. You can switch to any PowerPoint view (Normal, Slide Sorter, Notes Page) you want and also change the task panes layout in the views. Both these windows are kept synchronized with each other. When you navigate through the presentation in one window, ProTools navigates the presentation in other window.