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.

Notes can be written by ANVL from the deck: in the editor's Notes tab, for this slide or for every slide without notes — what to say, not what the slide shows. Undo takes it back. Choose Short, Medium or Long first: cue words for someone who knows the subject, a full script for someone who does not. The choice is remembered per deck, and on a slide that builds in steps the notes mark where to click next.

The clock in the presenter view splits your time across the slides by content. It shows what the current slide gets, whether you are ahead of or behind plan, and — when time runs short — which slide to jump to so the rest fits.

Builds

A deck can reveal a slide step by step. You turn builds on or off per slide in the inspector, or for the whole deck in one tap. When time runs short, Show without builds in the presenter view shows every slide whole and moves slide by slide — without changing the deck.

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.

Casting to a TV

Cast to a screen in the control bar opens the same picker as casting a video. Choose a Chromecast or a Google TV, and the TV becomes the audience screen while your computer keeps control. Your notes never go to the TV — it is sent a separate link that does not carry them. Casting works in a browser that can cast, such as Chrome.

Keys

Press ? while presenting for the full list. The ones worth knowing:

→ or Space, ←

Next and previous. On a slide that builds, next goes one step at a time; ] skips the rest of the build.

A number, then Enter

Jump to that slide. Home and End go to the first and the last.

G

All slides as a grid.

P

The presenter view in its own window — or, from the presenter view, the audience window.

B and W

Black or white out the screen, for when the room should look at you.

T

Start and pause the clock in the presenter view.

F, H and Esc

Full screen, hide the control bar, and leave — first full screen, then the presentation.

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.