PowerpPoint 15.18 running on OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan), when I go into Screen Show on a 2 monitor set up, is no longer working properly. My standard setup for meetings is:. Main display (Macbook retina). External display (projector in conference room) When I launch into screen show, does not appear to matter in terms of which screen, I get initially a screen: but it either entirely fails to show the presentation (external) screen show, or overlays fairly quickly the above with the presentation. If I manage to hit the icon that says swap displays, before it is overlaid, quickly enough, it will move that to the external (2nd) display, and another swap screen will actually do things correctly, swapping and showing them both. But obviously I would much prefer having the two screen mode operate in two screen mode, rather than having to do all this juggling around (which takes a lot of time in the meeting). Anyone else seen this?.
Jan 06, 2016 I have an issue with playing video files in Powerpoint 2016 for Mac machine only, although I have chosen to automatically play the videos file it never play. Tried small size of video files to big sizes, same issue. Created many new presentations with sample slides and adding videos it works only on mouse click even if automatic is checked.
Figured out a setting or preference or way to avoid it occurring? Yes, thank you for the suggestion. I am familiar with the presentation in a Window approach, and that does work (though I would really prefer not to have to tweak each slide deck - that takes time and interferes with the flow of the presentations), but only in the sense that the presentation can be made to show up on the external (2nd) screen. PowePpoint 2016, however, in this mode does not show on two screens, you can only see the presentation on the 2nd screen, not the speaker notes, upcoming slide, etc. So it is not a fix for the problem. For the record,. PowerPoint/Preferences.
Slideshow. Uncheck 'Always start Presenter View with 2 displays' Also works to an extent, you get the presentation on both the primary and 2nd display. And it has the advantage of the setting is sticky, works across multiple presentations, but that said, it does not get me what I want which is:. Primary screen shows Speaker notes and upcoming presentation, i.e.:.
The second (external screen shows): Let me note that this all used to work fine, that this is at least for me, broken only with the recent PowerPoint release. What I generally get, is that instead of showing the presentation on the 2nd. External (projector) screen, it shows for a second or two the speaker notes on the primary (internal) screen, then overlays them with the presentation. Instead of going to the external screen, it goes to the internal. It does not matter which screen I start the presentation from, neither work. If I start on the external screen, what I see on the internal initially is the speaker note screen, but the presentation (screen show) either does not show at all, or overlays that. So I have to say, this looks like a bug to me on the latest PowerPoint 2016 for Mac (15.18 (160109), OS X 10.11.3, rMBP Mid 2012, NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024MB.
A couple of other people in one of our company forums were kind enough to test, are hitting the same problem, so I think it is in PowerPoint, but that is a guess. Any further suggestions? I have the same issue and agree with all the above sentiments.
Microsoft needs to fix this fast. I am constantly presenting to large audiences and nobody is amused - though most are tolerant. It does have something to do with the Mission Control setting 'Displays have separate spaces'. I only recently turned that back on. Prior to that things were OK.
I tested by switching back and the 'feature' reappeared. SOLUTION: When using external displays go to mission control to turn OFF 'Displays have separate spaces', which removes the Mac menu from the external display. You will need to logout/in for this to take effect. NOTE: Hopefully Microsoft will fix this in a future update.
Just making an update. Problem is still present for me, latest levels:. Microsoft PowerPoint 15.28.
macOS Sierra 10.12.1 I am disappointed that Microsoft has not fixed this, in the 11 months since I posted the problem, particularly given how widespread the problem is. The show in Window work-around I consider unacceptable, you lose too much of the slide show (monitor) screen, it looks unproffesional. The turning off 2 monitors in the PowerPoint preferences, or pressing 'Use Slide Show', as a work-around, is also less than ideal, as:.
Same show takes place on both monitors, so you lose your presenter view entirely, so your timings, upcoming slide, etc., does not show up. There is a blanking of the display for up to 6 seconds, switching modes, dead time, which is quite noticeable to the audience. In 'Use Slide Show', the cursor is not always showing, making it difficult to select in the first place (you can kind of cursor around, when it changes color select it, but even that does not always work, as it can get overlaid with the slide show, on the laptop instead of external display) So it very much remains a problem. Perfect and simple solution that worked immediately!! Powerpoint was driving me crazy when I was connecting an external monitor or projector. The moment I would hit Slide Show, the second external screen would either show only part of the presentation with a sharp vertical cut and the rest of the monitor showing just the background image, or it would not show anything at all. Even worse, when I would get the external monitor/projector to show the presentation, a tiny flick of the mouse over the silde on the Mac screen would half exit the presentation, not showing anything in the external monitor/projector and showing half of the presentation on the Mac screen, with the computer half-frozen until I quitted powerpoint (in addition the key command 'Shift-command-enter would get me out of this akward situation.
Once I unchecked 'displays have separate spaces' in mission control preferences solved totally all the above problems! Thanks a million! Powerpoint 14.3.2 running on a MacBook Pro with MacOSX 10.9.5.