Presenting

Presenting opens the presentation full screen. The presenter view — your notes, the next slide and a clock — is a second window you open from it.

Opening the presenter view

Three ways, all from the presentation itself: the presenter button in the control bar, the P key, or the button that puts the slides on a second screen, which opens both at once.

The audience window shows the current slide and nothing else — not your notes, not the clock, not what is coming. The controls stay out of the way and come back when you move the mouse.

Getting it on the second screen

When your computer can see more than one screen, a button appears that puts the presentation on the other one and brings up your presenter view at the same time. With only one screen connected, the button is not there — arrange the two windows yourself.

If you are using a projector by cable, tell your computer to extend rather than mirror the display. Mirroring puts the same thing on both screens, which means your notes go on the wall.

Shared links

A link you send someone opens the presentation to read. There is no presenter view on a shared link — it belongs to the signed-in presenting view, which is yours.

Before you walk in

If you changed your brand kit since you built the deck, open it once first. Presentations read the brand as it is now, not as it was — which is usually what you want, and occasionally a surprise. See Changing your brand later.