PowerPoint Tips and Templates

Using the slide show view button for more than launching your PowerPoint 97/2000/2001/2002 presentation

As you know, you can either choose View | Slide Show or click the Slide Show View button (located by default near the bottom right corner of your screen). Additionally, if you’re using PowerPoint 2000 or 2002, you can simply press F5. So how valuable is that Slide Show button anyway?

Actually, there are several different actions associated with the button that make it unique. First, clicking the Slide Show View button allows you to view your presentation starting from the active slide (rather than from the first slide in the presentation). To see a miniature preview of your slide show without leaving the PowerPoint workspace, hold down [Ctrl] and click the Slide Show View button (not available on a Mac). If you want to preview your slide show in a Web browser, hold down [Alt] ([command] on the Mac) as you click the Slide Show View button. And if you want to quickly launch the Set Up Show dialog box so that you can adjust settings such as pen color, timings, the precise slides you want viewed, the show type (such as Kiosk), or even access the Projector Wizard, hold down [Shift] as you click the Slide Show View button.