Open PP in separate windows

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George Wilson

I am using PowerPoint XP on a Windows XP system. Is there
any way to open two separate instances of PowerPoint?
Currently it opens in one window.
TIA
George
 
Hi, George. In Powerpoint, click on Tools | Options | View | check the "Windows in Taskbar" box. This doesn't actually open two instances of Powerpoint, but it does put each open Powerpoint file in a separate icon on the task bar.
 
Yes I was aware of that setting, just wondering if you can
have two separate windows in PP like you can do with Word.
Thank you
George
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Hi, George. In Powerpoint, click on Tools | Options |
Click to expand...
View | check the "Windows in Taskbar" box. This doesn't
actually open two instances of Powerpoint, but it does put
each open Powerpoint file in a separate icon on the task
bar.
 
Yes I was aware of that setting, just wondering if you can
have two separate windows in PP like you can do with Word.
Click to expand...

Afraid not. PowerPoint is strictly single-instance. You can have two
*versions* of it running at once though. Or a viewer and a PPT at the same
time.
 
Open all the file you want to work on. then from Window on the Tool Bar, select
Arrange All. Do then, whatever you need to do.

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Hi George,
I find this annoying also. I have a dual-monitor setup like a lot of folks
these days. I often have to create a presentation using slides from two or
three other presentations.

It would be so cool to have one Powerpoint window on my laptop screen, and
the other on the external monitor so I could drag slides from one
presentation to the other.

Even just to be able to compare two presentations, side-by-side, would be
useful.

I can do it with Word, why not with Powerpoint ?

Cheers,
Geoff
 
Hi Steve,

I have an associate that has had as many as 4 separate instances of PP 2003 open on an XP Pro box.

So is this something you can do with PP 2003, or is he just lucky?
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How has he determined that there are four instances open?

I'm thinking maybe hitting himself over the head until he's seeing double (through
each eye)? ;-)

Look in the processes list of Task Manager. If you have two instances of Excel
going, for example, you'll see two instances of excel.exe in the processes list. If
you have two or more instances of Powerpnt.exe in the processes list, I'm willing to
bet that only one or none of them will behave in civil fashion.




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