PowerPoint Viewer display settings...

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ALH

I am building a pps file on a computer with one monitor
and want to display this file on the secondary monitor of
another computer. Which means I do not have access to set
the show settings->monitor to secondary. Any ideas?

ALH
 
I am not certain I fully understand your situation, so please reply with
more specific info if needed. If your computer graphics card does not
support extended desktop, but does have two video ports, it will mirror the
display, so both monitors see the same image. On laptops this is activated
using a special 'function' key and one of the "f1-12" keys. On a desktop
with a multimonitor graphics card this needs to be activated in the graphics
card control panel (control panel -- display -- settings tab -- advanced
button -- monitor tab).

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The viewer will show on the primary monitor. This is by design and can not
be changed.

Check here for ways to de-activate your dual monitor, so that the display
can be shown on your projector and screen simultaneously.

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00476.htm or
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00231.htm

If you need more help, please post back. We'll walk you though it.
B

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John from MS also wrote:
Hello,

Even in the latest version of PowerPoint (2003), the PowerPoint Viewer
always displays on the Primary display of a multiple monitor enabled system.
As indicated in previous posts, to get the slide show to appear on another
display you will need to either turn off multiple monitor support (so slide
show appears on all displays) or you will have to use PowerPoint instead of
the PowerPoint Viewer.

If multiple monitor awareness in the PowerPoint Viewer is important to you,
don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state your
wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion be
implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.




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The pps file can be set to display on either the primary
or secondary monitor by loading it in powerpoint on a
computer that has multiple monitors setup. However, I am
building the file on a computer with one monitor so that
setting isn't available at "design time". The laptop that
will be running the pps file has multiple monitors and I
would like to display the presentation on the secondary
monitor while still able to view my other application on
the primary monitor. So, I'm looking for a registry
setting or some way of accessing and setting the display
options for a pps file. The pps file is actually being
launched from another application.

I did find a code example in the MS Knowledge Base which
uses msppt.olb, but this raises questions about
redistribution and the olb file is version specific.
 
I did find a code example in the MS Knowledge Base which
uses msppt.olb, but this raises questions about
redistribution and the olb file is version specific.
Click to expand...

You don't need to distribute OLB files; they basically just inform VB about
the specific app's object model and such.
 
My apologies. When you said PowerPoint Viewer in the Re field, I thought
you meant the PowerPoint Viewer, not the PowerPoint recipient.

The one I was referring to is a viewer program that lets people see you
slideshow even if they do not have PowerPoint. (This can not be set-up for
secondary monitor.)

The other, is the person on the other end of a simple distribution.

My bad.

B

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