@joacunha_13, excellent! Now with the saved time, go do something fun for yourself!

So did you like this style? Or find it unhelpful?

@ I loved it!!

I am so relieved! I was concerned.

It is great to know that the Slide Master class is traveling far and wide. Enjoy creating some amazing presentations!

1) Get PowerPoint running and load your presentation. 2) In PowerPoint, go to the SLIDE SHOW ribbon menu and make sure USE PRESENTER VIEW is turned on. . . checkbox 3) Jut above that checkbox, find MONITOR and select where you want the slideshow to be presented on 4) Launch the slide show, typically by clicking FROM BEGINNING. 5) Now the Slide Show and the PRESENTER View should be displayed but the 3rd monitor is now independent of those two. Use your ALT TAB to navigate to the PowerPoint program, which will be hiding underneath a window and drag it to the third monitor. Now when you edit, it will change dynamically on the other screens. IMPORTANT. All three monitors must be EXTENDED, not mirrored.

@keshidawgies, you are being way too generous. But thanks for the compliment. Enjoy maximizing your imagination!

Fair point. While I state it in the video, I have just updated my KZbin title, description and thumbnail to reflect the focus on PowerPoint for Windows.

@PowerUpTraining trying this on Mac has me pulling my hair out. It works sometimes if I do the process a bunch of times. It's like powerpoint takes over macs display settings.

How many monitors/displays are you using? Tomorrow, I can look at my Mac setup. What specific issues are you experiencing?

@dreea6446, I am thrilled that I could help. Best of luck for your next PowerPoint presentation.

@niksonjoji9419, thanks for sharing. Knowing that I helped makes me happy!

@leannlong6204, I feel your pain. As a small-time KZbin creator, I have ZERO control over how Google inserts advertisements before, during, and after. Other than turning off ads completely, and I think they may still put in ads. This video took about 30 hours to make, and last month, I made only $4.10 in US dollars. Less than a fancy cup of coffee.

I too find it hard to believe that Logitech made this so "complex." Putting electrons into a device should not be complicated.

@smeks, yes indeed, it is a quirky set of "rules." Glad I was able to help.

@Vic-Meow, the core features are the same after 30 years. But the ADD ONS! And I see that the rate of change (added "tricks") has increased over the last three years. (Sigh.)

@@PowerUpTraining true, the add-ons are pretty cool. I especially like how the slides can be played directly from the computer. Back on my day, we were printing to a slide recorder and getting the slides developed! So I really shouldn't complain! Thank you again, so much!

I am embarrassed to ask. Do you remember using Harvard Graphics for your charts?

@@PowerUpTraining I don't think I recall that. It sounds vaguely familiar but I was using excel since 1988. Please allow me to reminisce: i used a Macintosh SE30. It had 2mb of RAM and all the other secretaries were SO jealous! I made presentations in PowerPoint. To add a graph, I had to quit PP, go to excel and make the graph, copy it, then quit excel, relaunch PP, paste the chart. Invariably there was a screwup and had to go through it all again, usually numerous times. And as you probably recall, quitting and launching those apps took about a minute! At least I didn't have to go back and forth between the floppy drives (3.5" discs) like others had to do on the older Macs. Because my Mad had Multifinder! And 30mb of hard disk space! I still am paranoid about file size to this day. If you're asking about Harvard graphics, I suspect you are very familiar with my experience! (I just found your channel today since I'm revamping a PP presentation for a client and was so happy to find your video!)

@KLRCAT, over the years, I have always worked in conference rooms with Windows computers; my mac experience is on my desktop Mac Studio with just a couple of monitors. Let me connect up a third monitor later today and test out some theories. (And please keep the hammer locked in a cabinet to save ALL macs in existence.)

@KLRCAT, my experience with Mac multi monitors is not as strong as my Windows world. Getting the needed display ports on some of the modern macs, can confound me at times. However, I think a simple solution may be to get a video splitter with one HDMI in and multiple HDMI outs which will mirror the single video stream to multiple monitors. Amazon has a variety of "1x3 HDMI Splitter, 1 in 3 Out HDMI Splitter" for under $20. I use these in my KZbin recording studio to duplicate a secondary screen to multiple monitors. For a permanent room setup, it will work every time, but also are light enough to pack and travel with your extended HDMI cables. However, you might ask you question over on the PowerPoint Reddit forum, as there a wealth of smart people there: www.reddit.com/r/powerpoint/

Ken, I am pleased this helped. Starting on the outline first is so powerful for helping you focus your presentation and results in clearer communications. GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR PRESENTATIONS!

@antn-jg1zy, on KZbin you have many choices: run the video at 2 times speed, or use the included chapters to jump to the point of interest, or watch someone else's video or spend the three hours I did THOROUGHLY researching a thorny problem, which I condensed down to 13 min. All are your choices. And I am OK with any choice you make. KZbin rocks as the viewer has choices,

@khembodikamawoko7465 , it is always great to know that I could help. Good luck in making Slide Master work for you!

There are so many clever ways, like yours, to customize the buttons to perform other actions. Here is an "unpublished" tutorial on customizing the buttons. A more complete and polished version is on my list to finish: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4LNmKeoYplqbck

I believe this is a function of PowerPoint and not the Remote. And as far as I know, there is no way to make that go away. If I stumble upon such a solution, I circle back to you.

@rosaobreg, glad to help!

@rl4551, can you provide a little more context on when the TAB does not work? For testing purposes, if you are on a new slide and in main bullet list placeholder, type some text and then hit return. Next press the TAB key does it indent? And if not, go to Microsoft Word and see if the TAB key works there. Since this tutorial was created, I have incorporated the use of my Mac Studio, and so I can troubleshoot, but I need more info on what is not working.

The trick is to setup the "screen mirroring" in the WIndow's DISPLAY SETTINGS. Start at the 1:15 minute mark to see how to access the settings. Then at the 2:24 mark, it show more details on using the settings. But I do not discuss the differences between EXTEND which is the default and MIRROR. It is the MIRROR setting that will let you choose which two monitors to mirror (duplicate) and that should solve your needs. Windows 10 and 11 are slightly different but it will be on the DISPLAY SETTING screen. Also, an alternative method, it you do lots of duplicate monitors on a regular basis is to get a HDMI DUAL MONITOR Splitter from like Amazon for $12 to $25. This will split and mirror you external HDMI cable for two TVs or Monitors.

@Brownsugar5329, while 95% of my video is spot on; I have on my future agenda to do an updated WORD specific version of SmartArt tutorial before the year is out. Thanks for the encouragement.

@chelseytatum8880, let me ponder this overnight . . . check back tomorrow.

Chelsey, this will be a too long and involved back and forth to fit in the comment section of KZbin. Use my website's "Contact Me" form to connect and I can ask you a few more questions to get clarifications: www.power-up.training/contact/

@@PowerUpTraining Sounds good! Appreciate your help!

@CassandraAnderson, so pleased this helped!

By chance, are you using an Apple Mac? Across the board on many PowerPoint features, Mouse HOVERING in Windows will have popup info but the Mac does not. If you are on the Mac, I can look for an alternative, but I am travelling for work today and don't have access to my desktop Mac.

@@PowerUpTraining Thanks Les and, yes, Mac running Sonoma 14.5. Hovering not working in Mac OS platform - not so much of a surprise. Of course it's available under the Insert>New Slide gallery but it'd be nice to see it in Master Slides. So the layout names have never appeared under the slides?

As far as I know, the hover feature has never been available on the Mac . . . I suspect that is a Apple interface "vocabulary" rule. The only cheat method, which is ugly, is when in the SLIDE MASTER view, right click the layout and select RENAME . . . don't rename it but you will see the name.

@@PowerUpTraining you're right I do the rename thing as well 😕. It's not a big production issue so just have to live with it. Thanks though.

@bruceaisher, glad to help.

Send a note to me on my website, and we can discuss it offline. www.power-up.training/contact/

Try removing the slide background as it might be embedded there.

@@PowerUpTraining someone suggested to make it a zip file and extract the media file and that worked.

The Zip file approach was a clever fix. Glad it worked out.

Perhaps you would be so kind as to give me specific detailed instructions on where to find "Convert to SmartArt" in Excel.

@doughcreekcompany1040, you are spot on. SmartArt is 90% the same between Excel and PowerPoint. But not identical, I hint at this in my intro but you are correct. There is no CONVERT TO SMARTART in Excel. Two things. I made this tutorial 3 years ago and now realize how improved my recent tutorials are. This is an embarrassment. After your comment, I am committing to redoing ALL my Excel and Word SmartArt tutorials over the next 60 days. Secondly, in the mean time, you could possibly copy your data over to PowerPoint and use the "CONVERT TO SMARTART" there and then bring the results back to Excel. I appreciate you bringing this to my attention!

See my reply below.

@@PowerUpTraining I’m very impressed with your work. I find your tutorials most helpful. Sometimes little things happen. Stay safe.

Just as I encourage my viewers to improve their skills, I too have taken this to heart. Over the last 18 months I have worked hard to improve my production values (audio, lighting, camera work, video editing) and my tutorial annotations and really trying hard to be more succinct (shorter videos) with out sacrificing my niche of digging deep into topics. Each long form video takes me about 8 days, but I am actually jazzed about revising SmartArt for Excel (and I will also improve the Word versions) and making them all standalone. Thanks for getting me to refocus on this cool tool.

You are quite Welcome, Welcome. <Smile>

@andycm4218, just as I want my viewers to strive to be better, I too must continue to up my game in clear instructions with each new tutorial. Thanks for the comment.

Short answer: YES. Longer answer requires several "programing" of the Logitech buttons. Use the "Logitech Presentation" software that must be installed on your Mac and change TWO things. 1) change the "HOLD BACK BUTTON" to bottom "custom keystroke" where you will then hold down the Mac CONTROL KEY and press the UP ARROW. Next hit enter and it will be programed. CONTROL & UP arrow will bring up Mission Control. Now when you hold down the BACK button it will pop up MISSION CONTROL. (A single tap of that button will still go back a slide). 2) Next, make sure the POINTER setting needs to be on "HIGHLIGHT." Then you should be good to go. Now. 1) HOLD down the small back button, and MISSION CONTROL appears. 2) Next, holding down the the top small button, a "spotlight" will appear and keep holding it down when you WAVE the remote around. You will be able to highlight the window. Let go of the small spotlight button and click once to bring that window forward. Let me know if this works.

Thank you Les for your Helpful reply below ... Short answer: YES. Longer answer requires several "programing" of the Logitech buttons. Use the "Logitech Presentation" software that must be installed on your Mac and change TWO things. 1) change the "HOLD BACK BUTTON" to bottom "custom keystroke" where you will then hold down the Mac CONTROL KEY and press the UP ARROW. Next hit enter and it will be programed. CONTROL & UP arrow will bring up Mission Control. Now when you hold down the BACK button it will pop up MISSION CONTROL. (A single tap of that button will still go back a slide). 2) Next, make sure the POINTER setting needs to be on "HIGHLIGHT." Then you should be good to go. Now. 1) HOLD down the small back button, and MISSION CONTROL appears. 2) Next, holding down the the top small button, a "spotlight" will appear and keep holding it down when you WAVE the remote around. You will be able to highlight the window. Let go of the small spotlight button and click once to bring that window forward. Let me know if this works.

Here is a follow up. I plan to do an extended tutorial but here is a rough cut version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4LNmKeoYplqbck

@lnsert_Text, super glad I could help. The feature is not easy to find, but when you need it, thank goodness it is there!

@dahliaz6441, glad I could be of help!

@tinahunt7008, did you perform these steps more than once? No matter what, do it again but this time create a new subfolder and select that folder. Then when it saves the slides, they will all be in that new folder, as just one set of individual slide files.

@@PowerUpTraining I did create new subfolders. The issue is when the slides are placed on a usb drive. This is fine except if I want to display on a tv. The smart tv does not recognize ppt or pots as a valid format, insisting we save as a jpeg. Which I did, and now they are out of order and have duplicates. It’s a quandary for sure.

Tina, we are now getting into the quirky world of TVs trying to handle multimedia. Maybe a different approach. Instead of individual files, turn them into a single long "movie" by going to the FILE menu and EXPORT. Then you will have complete control of the order. Take a look at the end of this tutorial on making photo slide shows as it touches into the movie making feature in the last two minutes. Or do a KZbin search specifically on EXPORTING TO A MOVIE in POWERPOINT>

Do you use one external monitor on your laptop now and want to use a 2nd external monitor? Are you on a Windows or Mac computer? Lastly, by chance, can you share the laptop model number and manufacturer?

@@PowerUpTraining Thank you so much for your quick reply! Here's what I've got and what I'm trying to do: Desktop PC with Windows 10. Laptop PC (HP) with Windows 10. Presentation will be online but platform is not Zoom. I'm told the platform will not support "Presentation Mode" (otherwise, I'd have no issue here). So i want to connect my laptop (somehow) so that viewers can see my desktop while I am looking at Presenter Mode on my laptop. Hope that makes sense.

@@orchardhillband5949 I am going to speculate without knowing what the presentation platform is going to be. Should it be Microsoft TEAMS, then it does have its own "Presentation Mode," just slightly different. If it is some other tool, then it is hard to know. However, you should be able to hook an external monitor to your HP laptop with an HDMI cable and then have Windows "Extend" the monitor view (refer to tutorial). You should be able to start presentation mode and then tell the presentation tool which screen to present. It will only show one. I hope you could get someone to practice with in advance using their tool, and you should then be able to figure it out.

Hi again. Just wondering if you had the opportunity to read my issue description yet? I'm hoping there's a way to address this. Thank you for a reply one way or another.

See my reply under my name "@LesMcCarter" that i gave two days ago (my other account). "However, you should be able to hook an external monitor to your HP laptop with an HDMI cable and then have Windows "Extend" the monitor view (refer to tutorial). You should be able to start presentation mode and then tell the presentation tool which screen to present. It will only show one. I hope you could get someone to practice with in advance using their tool, and you should then be able to figure it out."

Welcome to Team Slide Master! Take your new knowledge to wow your audience. Good luck.

Stephen, I will add this to my list for future tutorial topics. Is there something specific that was giving you issues?

@stepengordet4022, I have released my NOTES MASTER tutorial with an extra twist: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJCTeWmPq6Z6aJo

@donnakenski2964 , I am pleased this has helped and grateful for your compliment. Now go have fun with Design Ideas.

@mikemasuda3093, I am so pleased that you found the video and it helped. Thanks for sharing!

@kristenshepherd8797, AWESOME. Glad I could have helped!

@halloosin8, now go out and slay! Thanks for taking the time for the update.

Glad it helped!

@HendrickT-bi4iw, you please me to no end! The whole point of the video was to lessen some of the pain in the world. Thanks for reporting back.

@Be_slow_like_Acoustic, as you could tell, I LOVE mind maps and this is a great way to make smaller maps with the Microsoft SmartArt tool. Thanks for watching.

Vicki, I am intrigued to see if we can find an alternate solution. But prefer not to discus on the internet/KZbin. Only if you wish, reach out to me on my CONTACT page at: www.power-up.training/contact/

I continue to think about the situation. And have some convoluted way to turn on Windows Accessibility feature of "COLOR FILTERS" and the selection of a color combo. This will let you alter how PowerPoint PRESENTER looks but the downside is that it will also alter the color scheme of your PowerPoint presentation. Should this be an option (not all companies will let you alter the facility's computer), you could then design a presentation color scheme to work when COLOR FILTERS is enabled. Reach out to me if this is of interest.

@karenerichards9351, before you start Zoom, do you already have the PowerPoint Left and Right monitor working they way you want? Once configured, you should then be able to start Zoom and when it comes time to present, select SHARE and share the specific SCREEN, not the app. That way you can choose the screen with the presentation. Let me know how that works out.

@@PowerUpTraining Thanks for your great video. When in video meetings, I find using PowerPoint overrides all three screens which then means there is a scramble to find the Share option on the Zoom/Teams meeting platform. (I don't want to share before the PPT is displayed at my end). Is there a way to have PPT just show on two of my three monitors (having both the Presenter mode and an Edit screen mode are unnecessary for me)?

@@rodthiele4284, ah, video meetings and PowerPoint. I agree that trying to be in control can be a pain when Zoom or Teams want to take control. And you are right to only want to share your presentation after you are ready. While Teams has an "upload PowerPoint" mode, so it is just a click to start, I do find that if you are not careful, it will let the viewers fast-forward through the slides before you want them to. I advise practicing with both Zoom and Teams to learn how to share (create your own cheat sheet to remember) and figure out how to share a specific monitor (not the app) where you can have the presentation ready and waiting. By having the presentation on your 2nd monitor, you will know it is ready and waiting, once you elect to share that monitor. Practice with someone in a "pretend" meeting on both Zoom and then Teams and learn to get good at the smooth SHARE MONITOR technique.

Great tip for those with developer skills or just getting started.

You would think with all the money that Microsoft is investing in AI, that they could add some "intelligent" error message on why DESIGNER Icon is grayed out and how to fix it. As it is now, it is just guessing on what black magic is missing. Sigh . . .