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Here is a scenario my boss wants to have set up in his office:

His view is to have a room full of thinkers (sitting at the conference
table) with the presentation up on a 32" flat panel display as well as on his
and one other persons PC monitors, then the collaboration begins with his
room full of thinkers making suggestions on the slides while the boss and/or
the other person make the modifications from their PC's.

Is this possible? I'm not sure a KVM type of switch would work in this type
of environment.

Thanks in advance for any help, direction, insight you can give.
 
Paul said:
Here is a scenario my boss wants to have set up in his office:

His view is to have a room full of thinkers (sitting at the conference
table) with the presentation up on a 32" flat panel display as well as on
his
and one other persons PC monitors, then the collaboration begins with his
room full of thinkers making suggestions on the slides while the boss
and/or
the other person make the modifications from their PC's.

Is this possible? I'm not sure a KVM type of switch would work in this
type
of environment.

Thanks in advance for any help, direction, insight you can give.
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Not easily done with two people on two computers with PPT up to and
including 2007 but it will be able to be done with PPT 2010. See:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/en/whats-new/default.aspx

Now, what if only one person is the one doing the edits. This then could be
done with any current version of PPT.

With a laptop computer, simply hook the one person's laptop to the flat
panel display (or projector if desired) and "clone" the laptop's display to
the flat panel. Depending on the laptop computer used the control to switch
the computer from laptop display only to external display only to laptop
display/external display combined is Function key (Fn) and one other F key
pressed at the same time. The documentation on the computer will tell you.

If there is no laptop but a desktop with only one video output you can
purchase a VGA video splitter that will "clone" the desktop's display to the
external video device. They are not too expensive but ensure that it can
run at the resolution of both the computer's display and the external video
device.

Let us know if this information helps or if you have any further questions.
 
LVTravel,
Thank you, this does help me.

I will study up on a VGA video splitter to see if this will work for our
scenario.

Another way we could do this is to fire up NetMeeting so both desktop
computers can modify the PPT presentation between themselves. I tried this
with someone else in the office and it worked OK, good enough to get the job
done. Just hope the boss will be willing to go through this process.
 
Mission complete! My boss found the correct splitter cable: Radio Shack,
Gigaware 2 port USB powered VGA splitter cable, item # 26-1264. This is not
the perfect scenario but works for my boss.

Thanks for the assistance!
 
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