powerpoint - Lightbulb Moment2024-03-29T07:25:21Zhttps://lightbulbmoment.community/groups/opencommunity/forum/feed/tag/powerpointScreen sharing PowerPoint in a window (Zoom and Teams)https://lightbulbmoment.community/groups/opencommunity/forum/zoom-screen-sharing-powerpoint-in-a-window2020-10-26T11:24:49.000Z2020-10-26T11:24:49.000ZJo Cookhttps://lightbulbmoment.community/members/JoCook<div><p>A few people have asked about good ways to share their PowerPoint slides when facilitating in Zoom so that they can still use the chat and participant panels without them overlapping their slides. </p>
<p>I do this by having PowerPoint run in a window, rather than full screen, and then I can have the panels open as well as the control bar and the annotation toolbar if I'm using it. And it means that any annotations from attendees aren't covered by the open panels. </p>
<p>This is a screengrab of how the screen could be setup as an example:</p>
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<p>To do this in PowerPoint: on the ribbon, click the <strong>Slide Show</strong> menu.</p>
<p>Then <strong>Set up slide show</strong>.</p>
<p>There are various options to explore and experiment with.</p>
<p>Click <strong>Browsed by an individual (window)</strong>.</p>
<p>Then run your presentation and adjust the window size and location to suit your setup and facilitation needs. In Zoom you then just share PowerPoint and all is good! Top tip, don't make the window size too small otherwise it will look blurry for participants. </p>
<p>This is how I usually run my Zoom sessions – with the panels handy as well as my facilitator guide on one side of the screen. It means I can see engagement easily, and have my annotation toolbar on permanently and ready to use, without it being in the way. I have a bigger screen, so I can also have polls and breakout panels open and ready, but that's just a little bonus.</p>
<p>This setup does mean I'm not seeing any PowerPoint notes, however I use a separate <a href="https://lightbulbmoment.info/2017/01/25/facilitator-guide-for-live-online-classroom/" target="_blank">facilitator guide</a>, so that doesn't worry me. There are other options if this isn't right for you, look at <a href="https://lightbulbmoment.community/groups/opencommunity/forum/zoom-screen-sharing-setup" target="_blank">this community post</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Over to you</strong></p>
<p>How do you do your screensharing in Zoom? What tips do you have?</p></div>Recent Adobe Connection PowerPoint animation issues?https://lightbulbmoment.community/groups/opencommunity/forum/recent-adobe-connection-powerpoint-animation-issues2019-02-01T14:50:39.000Z2019-02-01T14:50:39.000ZJo Cookhttps://lightbulbmoment.community/members/JoCook<div><p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I ran a session last week, piloting our new CPD Series, and I noticed that a lot of the basic, standard animations I used in my uploaded PowerPoint slides weren't working properly. Some of these are slide decks I've used for a while, so I know it's not something different I've done in the animation. </p>
<p>Some of it was weird were part of the animation wouldn't show up for others when I clicked (though I could see it). In other instances the animation step wouldn't work, but when I loaded the next animation step, both showed up! It makes quite a negative impact when I'm building my story or learning point. </p>
<p>Has anyone else had this issue on Adobe Connect recently?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
</div>WebEx Training Center and modern PowerPointhttps://lightbulbmoment.community/groups/opencommunity/forum/webex-training-center-and-modern-powerpoint2018-06-26T09:11:24.000Z2018-06-26T09:11:24.000ZJo Cookhttps://lightbulbmoment.community/members/JoCook<div><p>I really like a lot about WebEx Training Center. However one thing that is annoying is that they haven't updated to cope with PowerPoint animations in the last near-decade! </p>
<p>I have PowerPoint 2013 on my computer and if I share the file into WebEx I get this warning:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/41215122?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/41215122?profile=original" width="485" /></a></p>
<p>This means that NONE of the animations made in PowerPoint will work, not even 'old' simple ones. This is hugely frustrating. I'm not sure why this is, other than I assume that Cisco just hasn't invested in WebEx to deal with this. </p>
<p>One of the ways around this is to go back to splitting slides up to build them manually. It just feels wrong though and you end up with hundreds of slides. If you change something on one slide you can end up changing five or ten to keep them all the same. </p>
<p>Another way around this is to have an older version of PowerPoint. If you are in a company with PowerPoint 2010 or earlier anyway, then this is a bonus for you! I have an old laptop that I only really use for being the attendee in my virtual classrooms/my backup presenting machine. On this computer I have PowerPoint 2010 and then load any WebEx session slides from there to enable my animations. It's an extra annoying and time consuming step, but it does preserve my design. </p>
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<p>But there's something else I've noticed, which worries me almost as much. </p>
<p>This is a screengrab of a part of a slide from the PowerPoint 2010 upload:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/41233916?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/41233916?profile=original" width="623" /></a></p>
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<p>And this is a screengrab of the same part of the same file, but from the PowerPoint 2013 machine upload:</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/41235226?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/41235226?profile=original" width="609" /></a></p>
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<p>The quality difference is awful to my eye! Scale this up to a whole presentation, and your hard-designed visuals become fuzzy less-than-professional immintations of what you wanted to see. Sad and frustrating. </p>
<p>Have you noticed this? How do you get around it?</p>
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