Where is the whiteboard ?

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What version of PowerPoint? While all the recent versions have a white
screen you can draw on, I do not believe any of them have a true white board
feature.

To active a white screen while in Show mode, simply press the W key. If you
want to draw on the white screen, you may want to select your pen first,
then active the white screen. The white screen drawing is lost when the
screen is deactivated, while the drawing on the slides may be kept. If you
want to keep the drawing, simply insert an all white slide, and perhaps hide
it. Then you can jump to it from anywhere or create a link to that slide
from anywhere.


For a list of all the shortcuts available in Show mode, press F1 (while in
Show mode).


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Just to add to this information...

I knew I'd run across the term "whiteboard" before, but I couldn't remember
where -- so I typed Whiteboard into PPT 2003 help and got this:

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Only the host of an online meeting can open the Whiteboard (Whiteboard:
Microsoft NetMeeting feature that opens a separate window in which online
meeting participants can type text; draw shapes; copy, paste, and delete
objects; and highlight or point to text and graphics.) when Microsoft
Windows NetMeeting is used from within Microsoft Office.

On the Online Meeting toolbar (toolbar: A bar with buttons and options that
you use to carry out commands. To display a toolbar, click Customize on the
Tools menu, and then click the Toolbars tab.), click Display Whiteboard .

Tip

If you want to prevent participants from changing the shared document but
still allow them to draw or type simultaneously on the Whiteboard, on the
Online Meeting toolbar, click Stop others from editing .
*****

So it seems to be a NetMeeting feature. I don't think NetMeeting even exists
anymore -- didn't Windows Live Messenger replace it finally?

Oh, in 2003 I see Tools | Online Collaboration | Schedule Meeting (or Meet
Now), and that calls up the NetMeeting dialog.

This feature no longer exists in PPT 2007. I'd suggest looking at
third-party tools such as GoToMeeting or Glance.
 
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