Does anyone know of an add-on to put up an Alert or Message?

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Pat O

We use PowerPoint for our Sunday morning worship lyrics. I need the ability
to put up a message like "A Red Civic has it's lights on" or "Michel's
parents need to come to the nursery". I could do some quick editing of the
next slide (We use a matrix scaler that can freeze what is being displayed),
but I don't run the PowerPoint every week. Not everyone who runs our
presentations would be up to the task of real time editing :-).

Please reply here so others can learn about this as well.

Pat O
 
Look at SundayStar at http://officeone.mvps.org/sundaystar/sundaystar.html -
it allows you to run multiple slide shows on the same monitor and switch
between using the provided kerboard shortcuts. You can show your normal
slide show as one presentation and use a different slide show for
alerts/message. You can edit the message off-screen and when ready, use the
keyboard shortcuts to switch to the message slide show. Use another keyboard
shortcut to come back to the previous presentation.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
 
We use PowerPoint for our Sunday morning worship lyrics. I need the ability
to put up a message like "A Red Civic has it's lights on" or "Michel's
parents need to come to the nursery". I could do some quick editing of the
next slide (We use a matrix scaler that can freeze what is being displayed),
but I don't run the PowerPoint every week. Not everyone who runs our
presentations would be up to the task of real time editing :-).

Please reply here so others can learn about this as well.
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One suggestion that might work nicely for both this and your other problem.

If the budget permits, use a second projector and laptop.
Type your message in white text on a black b/g in a copy of PPT on that
computer, then fire it at the screen (while your main presentation is coming
out of the main projector).

I suspect you could get away with a fairly inexpensive little projector for
this, one that might also be used for other purposes during the week.
 
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