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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / May 2005type on slides during show?
During a powerpoint presentation I want to type answers from audience onto slides. Right now I escape to slide view and type into a text box already set up on the slide. I get rid of everything possible on the screen in the slide view but is there a better way? There are a few ways to do this. The easiest way is to draw a text box on your slide from the Control toolbox (View > Toolbars > Control Toolbox). On a Windows computer, this something that you can type in right on the screen. Another thing you can do is demonstrated in Example 6.7 on my site: http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ Go to "Examples by Chapter" and click on Chapter 6 to find it. --David David Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ > During a powerpoint presentation I want to type answers from audience onto > slides. Right now I escape to slide view and type into a text box already > set up on the slide. I get rid of everything possible on the screen in the > slide view but is there a better way? Hi Guys, I just tried mentioned example and it didn't work for me neither in preview nor in runtime mode :-( * PPT 2002 sp3; XP pro A few things that could have gone wrong (I think they're all mentinoed at the top of the page): (1) The file is zipped. Although Windows XP lets you run things directly from a zipped folder, the example won't work unless you extract it first (just drag it to your desktop). (2) The file contains macros. Thus, your macro security must be set to medium or low for it to work (Tools > Options > Security > Macro Security). I would set it to medium and then try running the file again. It should ask you if you want to enable macros. You must choose to enable macros. (3) This is made to run in Slide Show View. If you want to type in Edit/Normal View, you don't need anything special, so you must run it in Slide Show View. If these things don't help, let me know what you are seeing (be more specific than "it doesn't work"). --David  SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ > Hi Guys, > > I just tried mentioned example and it didn't work for me neither in > preview nor in runtime mode :-( > > * PPT 2002 sp3; XP pro Thanks David, >(2) ...macro security .. That helped >...be more specific than "it doesn't work" More specific: "IT Works!" :-) Thanks again PS It would be hghly appreciated if you find a minute to respond to "Pausing presentation" thread Regards Lynx, I'm glad I could help you out here. As far as the "pausing" thread, you're in good hands with Sonia and Chirag. I think they know more about that problem than I do (or at least have a better chance of tracking it down). --David SignatureDavid M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/ > Thanks David, >>(2) ...macro security .. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > "Pausing presentation" thread > Regards Use extended desktop (multi monitor) and send the slide show to the 2nd display. Sometimes PPT will auto detect and send without having to change anything. Now, in slide show, you will see the show on display 2 and your regular PPT window on the primary display. Just click on the primary display and start editing while in show. This works with existing text boxes/placeholders. If you add a new text box it will not show until you restart the slide show. While in show you can copy and paste and existing text box to add a new box. All the audience sees is the change. I use this all of the time and it works great. ................TD > During a powerpoint presentation I want to type answers from audience onto > slides. Right now I escape to slide view and type into a text box already > set up on the slide. I get rid of everything possible on the screen in the > slide view but is there a better way? |
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