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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / February 2008Two instances of PowerPoint one for dual display setup?
Can I run two instances of PowerPoint, one for each screen? I am using XP dual monitor display set up. I can run two instances of Excel and Word but not Powerpoint. Have looked for a setting but cannot find one. Powerpoint open files do not seem to have same independence from the application that Excel and Word files do. That is, you cannot 'Restore down' then drag a PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! AFAIK that isn't possible with PowerPoint, but you can get something like PowerShow to do it: http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html Lucy  SignatureMOS Master Instructor South Australia If this post answered your question please let us know as others may be interested too > Can I run two instances of PowerPoint, one for each screen? I am using XP > dual monitor display set up. I can run two instances of Excel and Word but > not Powerpoint. Have looked for a setting but cannot find one. Powerpoint > open files do not seem to have same independence from the application that > Excel and Word files do. That is, you cannot 'Restore down' then drag a > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! only Thanks Lucy. I checked out PwerShow. Great tool for SHOWing multiple ppt files on multiple screens. I should have been more specific: I would like to EDIT two different ppt files simultaneously on two different monitors on same PC. PowerShow, as far as I can see will allow me to edit on one screen and show on the other. > AFAIK that isn't possible with PowerPoint, but you can get something like > PowerShow to do it: http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Excel and Word files do. That is, you cannot 'Restore down' then drag a > > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! There is a technique for setting this up. Open the first presentation in PowerPoint for editing. Open the second presentation for editing in PowerPoint Manually resize the PowerPoint window to cover both screens of your dual monitor setup Select Windows => Arrange All Now, both presentations are visible for editing. SignatureBill Dilworth A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team Users helping fellow users. http://billdilworth.mvps.org -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages. yahoo. They answer most of our questions. com www.pptfaq.com . > only Thanks Lucy. I checked out PwerShow. Great tool for SHOWing > multiple [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> > a >> > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! Thanks Bill. Simple solution that I should have thought of! It is working very well. > There is a technique for setting this up. > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >> > a > >> > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! Thanks Bill - should have realised I was making things too complicated :-) Lucy SignatureMOS Master Instructor South Australia If this post answered your question please let us know as others may be interested too > There is a technique for setting this up. > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >> > a > >> > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! Hi, The problem with this "crude" solution hower is that the menu buttons are still all on one monitor and not on both monitors. Why exactly does MS restrict the ability of PPT to explot two monitors as two separate entities? since it very well can do it for its other Office Apps, what prevents Powerpoint from doing the same? And obviously command line option '/c' does not work at all (ends up popping netmeeting instead). Aaarrgggh > There is a technique for setting this up. > [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > >> > a > >> > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! > The problem with this "crude" solution hower is that the menu buttons are > still all on one monitor and not on both monitors. Why exactly does MS > restrict the ability of PPT to explot two monitors as two separate entities? We're all civilians here, not MS employees, so any answer you get to that question would be speculation. > since it very well can do it for its other Office Apps, what prevents > Powerpoint from doing the same? And obviously command line option '/c' does [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > >> > a > > >> > PowerPoint file to the second monitor. Any ideas? Thanks! ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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