You can open multiple Powerpoint windows by opening your files in Internet Explorer instead of Powerpoint. Right click on your file and select Open With. If you have Internet Explorer installed it should be one of your options. Select Internet Explorer. Your file should open in a browser window in presentation mode. Right click on a slide and you will get a context menu allowing you to select edit slides. You should now have access to all of the normal Powerpoint editing menus. You can do this for multiple files with each file opening in its own browser window. This doesn't work with Firefox since it wants to pass the files out to the Powerpoint app.
sand_vg wrote:
WHY can't powerpoint support multiple instances?
30-Sep-09
Excel, Word, Outlook, even Visio allows multiple instances to be open
What is the real reason behind Powerpoint's inability to open multipl
instances
Many of you have suggested workarounds such as
1) Arrange Al
2) Stretch the window to cover all monitor
3) Launch a second instance using a different user account
However, none of these workarounds is user-friendly. (For some larg
corporations, the third option cannot be executed.
Don't the developers use BING for consumer satisfaction research anymore
So the REAL REASON please.
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WHY can't powerpoint support multiple instances?
Excel, Word, Outlook, even Visio allows multiple instances to be open
What is the real reason behind Powerpoint's inability to open multipl
instances
Many of you have suggested workarounds such as
1) Arrange Al
2) Stretch the window to cover all monitor
3) Launch a second instance using a different user account
However, none of these workarounds is user-friendly. (For some larg
corporations, the third option cannot be executed.
Don't the developers use BING for consumer satisfaction research anymore
So the REAL REASON please.
Hi Sand,No one here in the newsgroups works for MS, so we can't speak for them
Hi Sand
No one here in the newsgroups works for MS, so we cannot speak for them ..
however, since typically, only one presentation can be in SHOW mode at
time, they seem to intentionally limit the number of instances
A simple pair of Macros can be written to do the steps and pushed out t
corporate users
First Macro will record the spanned size and location of the PowerPoin
window (only needs to be run once)
Second Macro will expand the PowerPoint application window to this siz
and arrange all open presentation editing windows
However, if you feel strongly about this, there is another option ..
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.htm
Bill Dilworth
What Bill said.And guess what?
What Bill said
And guess what? PPT 2010 behaves the way you want
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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What's new in PPT 2007?
http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.ht
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://tinyurl.com/36grc
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Of course, I should have clarified that PPT 2010 is in early beta / tech
Of course, I should have clarified that PPT 2010 is in early beta / tec
preview (or whatever it is called) -- but it *will* do this once it i
available! :-
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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.co
What's new in PPT 2007?
http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.ht
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://tinyurl.com/36grc
PowerPoint 2007 Complete Makeover Kit
http://tinyurl.com/32a7n
Don't Miss the PPTLive User Conference! Atlanta | Oct 11-14
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