Learn about Slide Show view in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows. This is the view that lets you show your slides in full-screen view to the audience.
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: PowerPoint 2016 for Windows
OS: Windows 7 and higher
Have you created all your slides, and now you want to show it in front of an audience? Or you just want to use this slide deck in a webinar, or even see them yourself to understand how they look in full-screen view? In that case, the view that plays your presentation in full screen mode is Slide Show view, as shown in Figure 1, below.
Figure 1: Slide Show view
To access Slide Show view, you can choose any of these options:
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To exit Slide Show view, choose any of these options:
Remember that Slide Show view is purely a display view and no editing can be done on slides at this point of time. However, Slide Show view has some navigation and annotation options. If you hover your cursor over the bottom left area of the slide, you'll find six watermarked navigation icons that you can see in Figure 6, below.
Figure 6: Navigation icons within Slide Show view
These icons are explained below, as marked in Figure 6, above:
Click this icon to navigate to the previous slide (or press the P, Left Arrow, or Backspace keys).
Click this icon to navigate to the next slide (or press the N, Right Arrow, or Spacebar keys).
Click on this button to bring up a menu, as shown in Figure 7, below.
Figure 7: Pen options
The options within this menu are explained below:
Click on this button to bring up the whole slide deck (see Figure 8), and choose any slide. With this option, you can easily switch slides in or out of sequence from a grid that only you see.
Figure 8: See All Slides screen
With this tool you can zoom a part of the slide and then pan around. Zoom works more smoothly if you are using a tablet device such as Microsoft Surface.
This icon, when clicked, opens a menu as shown in Figure 9 below in which some options are similar to the menu shown in Figure 5 above, including Show Presenter View to access the Presenter view, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 9, below.
Figure 9: The More Options menu
By default, Slide Show view works in full-screen mode but you can change that too. To do so, access the Slide Show tab of the Ribbon, and click the Set Up Slide Show button, highlighted in red in Figure 10, below.
Figure 10: Set Up Slide Show button within Set Up group
Alternatively, you can Shift + click the Slide Show button (shown highlighted in red within Figure 2, earlier on this page) on the Status Bar. Either of these options brings up the Set Up Show dialog box, as shown in Figure 11, below.
Figure 11: Set Up Show dialog box
In the Show type area, you can choose the Browsed by an individual (window) option, as shown highlighted in red within Figure 11, above. Turning on this option plays your presentation in a window, as shown in Figure 12. This is the exact equivalent of Reading view.
Figure 12: Slide Show within a window
Also within the Set Up Show dialog box, you will find Browsed at a kiosk (full screen) option, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 11, above. Turning on this option displays the presentation in full-screen mode but none of your navigation options such as a mouse click or the keyboard will let you move from one slide to another. To do so, you will have to add navigation options on your own using internal hyperlinks or Action Buttons.
Here are some shortcut keys that work in Slide Show view:
Shortcut Manager, a third party add-in for PowerPoint allows you to create your own shortcut keys in PowerPoint. To learn more, read the Indezine review of Shortcut Manager.
If you are using a multi-display environment such as a laptop plus a projector, you can also use Presenter View in addition to Slide Show view at the same time.
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