You want to deliver a presentation while reading your speaker notes naturally without looking down at a laptop screen or printed paper. PowerPoint includes a hidden teleprompter feature that scrolls your notes on a secondary display or even on the main screen during a slide show. This article explains how to enable and control the … Read more
You connect a wireless presenter remote to your Windows laptop, but PowerPoint does not detect it. The slides do not advance, and the pointer remains stuck on the screen. This problem usually occurs because of mismatched receiver channels, disabled Bluetooth services, or a conflict with PowerPoint’s Presenter View settings. This article explains why the remote … Read more
During a live presentation, you may need to skip ahead to a specific slide without clicking through every slide in between. This happens when an audience member asks a question about content on a later slide or when you need to revisit an earlier slide for clarification. PowerPoint provides several keyboard shortcuts and navigation tools … Read more
You are delivering a live presentation and need to move between slides, show a black screen, or jump to a specific slide without fumbling through menus. PowerPoint provides a complete set of keyboard shortcuts that work during a slide show, letting you control every aspect of your presentation from the keyboard. This cheat sheet covers … Read more
During a live presentation, you often need to stop the slide show to answer a question, discuss a topic, or handle an interruption. Pressing Escape or switching windows can break the flow and show your desktop to the audience. PowerPoint includes built-in tools to pause the slide show without exiting full-screen mode. This article explains … Read more
You press a key or click the mouse to resume a paused PowerPoint slide show, but the screen stays black. The presentation does not return to the current slide. This problem occurs most often after the screen saver activates or the computer enters sleep mode during a slide show. The root cause is a conflict … Read more
When you present a PowerPoint slide show, sleep mode can interrupt the presentation by turning off the display or putting the computer into a low-power state. This happens because Windows power settings are configured to save battery or energy after a set period of inactivity. During a slide show, PowerPoint does not automatically prevent the … Read more
When you start a slideshow in Presenter View, PowerPoint automatically begins a timer that counts up from zero. Many users want this timer to always reset to zero at the start of each presentation, especially when rehearsing or presenting multiple times in a row. The timer is linked to the presentation session and does not … Read more
You want to display a PowerPoint slide show directly on your website without forcing visitors to download the file. Embedding a presentation as an iFrame lets you show the slides inside a web page while keeping the original formatting, animations, and transitions. This article explains the two main methods to generate the embed code: using … Read more
You have a finished PowerPoint presentation and want to send it directly to slide show mode, so recipients see your slides immediately without the editing interface. Saving the file as a .ppsx format launches the presentation in full-screen view when opened, bypassing the normal editing window. This article explains what a .ppsx file is, how … Read more