5 Awesome Features for Presenters

2)      Pointer location: If you want to draw the attention of your participants to a particular area on the screen, you can move your mouse arrow to that area and press ‘ctrl’. In order to activate this feature, you need to press ‘Windows R’ –> type ‘control mouse’ –> ‘Enter’. This command displays the Mouse pointer screen. Go to the third/fourth tab called ‘Pointer options’ and check the box that says ‘Show location of pointer when I press Ctrl Key’ –> Ok.

3)      Presenter view: With this feature, you can access controls over the screen visible to you and the one visible to your participants. For example, you can use this feature to view the presenter notes on the slides while your participants would be able to view only the slide. In order to know this feature in detail, visit my YouTube channel –You could also copy and paste this link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TewRK0wm_Dk&t=2s

To use this feature, you need to go to the presentation and check the box at the top that says ‘Use presenter view’. However, before even doing this, you need to press ‘Windows + P’ –> select ‘Extend’ option (third from top). You can then go to slideshow and check the presenter view. Once that is done, you can press F5 to launch the presentation and then use presenter view. Also, in order to be able to use this feature, your laptop or computer should be connected to a secondary display – a projector or a monitor. Please use the mentioned URL explore this feature.

4)       Presenter shortcuts: There are many shortcuts which can come to your aid in saving time and efforts while presenting. When you want to make the screen completely Black, you can press ‘B’, to come out of this mode, you can hit ‘B’ or the ‘spacebar’. Similarly, press ‘W’ to make the screen white, and hit ‘W’, or the ‘spacebar’ to bring it back to display. There is a shortcut to magnify the screen as well. Please note that this is the magnification option for PowerPoint and is different from the windows zoom option. Use ‘Ctrl + (plus)’ to zoom in and ‘ctrl – (minus)’ to zoom out in PowerPoint presentation. You can further press ‘Ctrl – (minus)’ to get back to Slide sorter view. While all these may be a challenge to remember, there is a way out too – press ‘F1′. It will load some additional shortcuts for you to refer. There are some interesting shortcuts like Rehearse control, media control, laser pointer, etc. The good thing is if you are in the presenter view mode, these shortcuts will not be visible to your audience. So it is important to ensure being in the presenter view mode, especially if you like to use yet tend to forget the shortcuts.

 A better option is to activate the developer tab and use “Text box in PPT”. To activate developer tab, go to File –> Options –> Customised Ribbon, Scroll down and check the option called ‘Developer’, Click OK. You will now have developer tab added to your ribbon. Go to the developer tab on the ribbon, select the ‘Text box’, from Insert command. Draw a text box on the slide where desired, press Shift + F5 and you can start typing however you would not be able to go to the next line. To enable this, select the text box, go to Properties Command, find the ‘EnterKeyBehaviour’ option. Click on that drop-down – turn it to ‘True’. Somewhere below that, there is one more feature called ‘Multiline’. Click on that and make the dropdown ‘True’ again. Once you are done, close this box, press Shift + F5, go back into the slideshow mode and type with ease. Even if you press escape, the texts are saved.