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C. Moya - 16 Nov 2006 04:54 GMT

How can I view two PowerPoint documents on two monitors. Everytime I open a
document each one seems to be contained weirdly in the same window.
Word doesn't behave this way.

I thought Office 2007 would have addressed this long standing weird and
unintuitive behavior... but it hasn't (inexplicably).

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Steve Rindsberg - 16 Nov 2006 06:40 GMT

> How can I view two PowerPoint documents on two monitors. Everytime I open a
> document each one seems to be contained weirdly in the same window.
> Word doesn't behave this way.

No, it doesn't. There are other differences as well.

You can't have two instances of PPT running at the same time as you can with
Word, but you can stretch the existing instance of it to cover both monitors,
then arrange individual presentations so one's on one monitor, the other's on
the other.

Not nearly as convenient, but it's what we have.

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C. Moya - 16 Nov 2006 07:14 GMT

>> How can I view two PowerPoint documents on two monitors. Everytime I open
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> Not nearly as convenient, but it's what we have.

That's totally idiotic if you ask me.
At least they changed Excel 2007 to adopt PowerPoint's2003/2007 behavior so
that clicking X only closes the active document and not every document you
have opened (god that was maddening!!!). At least there's that.

I don't know what's wrong with Microsoft nowadays. The last 3 years (VS2005
bugs, and now IE7- ugh!) have been torturous. I want my old Microsoft back.
The one that gave me the sleek Win2k and sturdy XP.

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