Arrrgh! Who at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to make it impossible to view 2 presentations side-by-side in Powerpoint?
OK, I say impossible – they’ve apparently fixed the problem in the latest version, and there’s an horrendous kludge which means it can sort-of be done in Powerpoint 2007 (see below), but multi-screen displays have been commonplace for years now!
To workaround Powerpoint’s irritating window arrangement, follow these steps:
- Open the 2 documents you’d like to view side-by-side
- Click the top-left blob
- Press the ‘Powerpoint Options’ button
- Select ‘Advanced’
- Untick “Show all window in the Taskbar”
- Press the ‘OK’ button. Your presentations will be contained within more manageable ‘child’ windows.
- Irritatingly you can’t drag these out of the ‘parent’ Powerpoint window. However, you can extend the window to fit your entire workspace, even across multiple monitors (if you’ve set your displays up to span)
What are your biggest software annoyances? Let us know – we may know a workaround.