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For the PowerPoint hacker in me...
Sep. 27th, 2009 03:58 pmAfter checking out the latest crop of printers at Fry's, I backed off for a bit and made the decision to try really hard to run a "paperless office" while we're down here in Texas. I did so not necessarily because of any tender feelings for trees, but because I am loathe to acquire Yet Another Printer.
This means I'm going to have to rely increasingly on my two-screen work setup, particularly when despeckling files. Displaying two MS Word files on two screens, in two windows, is fairly easy (which is to say, it's the default configuration on my VAIO). Doing the same with PowerPoint files is hard.
After running across a few gazillion pointers on how to have two open PowerPoint presentations open on one's monitor at the same time and realizing it would be wise to narrow the search down to all that plus each in its own window, I found most such tips to be outdated (i.e., not applicable to my version of PowerPoint), or simply useless (i.e., checking the "Windows in Taskbar" checkbox in Tools|Options|View which was already checked when I went looking).
However, I also ran across a suggestion at the Please Make A Note blog that did the trick.
(Of course I say this after having submitted all 6,000 or so words of translations that I despeckled by clicking Window|Arrange All and then extending the resulting window across two monitors. An imperfect kludge, to be sure, as in my case my two screens are not the same size or resolution, but it was good enough to get the job done with some additional mouse manipulation and derring-do.)
Prerequisite for PowerPointing in multiple windows is to create another "user" on your Windows machine (fairly straightforward via the "User Accounts" applet on the Control Panel). With that ace up your sleeve, my preferred method (the blog describes a couple) is to click on the start button, click on Run... and enter the following invocation:
Thus venture I forearmed into the murky gloom, better prepared for the next onslaught of PowerPoint idiocy!
Cheers...
This means I'm going to have to rely increasingly on my two-screen work setup, particularly when despeckling files. Displaying two MS Word files on two screens, in two windows, is fairly easy (which is to say, it's the default configuration on my VAIO). Doing the same with PowerPoint files is hard.
After running across a few gazillion pointers on how to have two open PowerPoint presentations open on one's monitor at the same time and realizing it would be wise to narrow the search down to all that plus each in its own window, I found most such tips to be outdated (i.e., not applicable to my version of PowerPoint), or simply useless (i.e., checking the "Windows in Taskbar" checkbox in Tools|Options|View which was already checked when I went looking).
However, I also ran across a suggestion at the Please Make A Note blog that did the trick.
(Of course I say this after having submitted all 6,000 or so words of translations that I despeckled by clicking Window|Arrange All and then extending the resulting window across two monitors. An imperfect kludge, to be sure, as in my case my two screens are not the same size or resolution, but it was good enough to get the job done with some additional mouse manipulation and derring-do.)
Prerequisite for PowerPointing in multiple windows is to create another "user" on your Windows machine (fairly straightforward via the "User Accounts" applet on the Control Panel). With that ace up your sleeve, my preferred method (the blog describes a couple) is to click on the start button, click on Run... and enter the following invocation:
runas /user:ghost "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\powerpnt.exe"where ghost in this case is the name of my recently conjured "other user" with an account on my machine. The system prompts for a password, then goes off and opens a second PowerPoint window, whereupon one is cooking with gas!
Thus venture I forearmed into the murky gloom, better prepared for the next onslaught of PowerPoint idiocy!
Cheers...
