PowerPoint Presenter View List View

Question

While using PowerPoint, and with a dual monitor system with the presenter view on my primary monitor, can you simply show your slides in a List View, rather than a full slide or, for the lack of a better term, an icon view?

Also, can it stay in the list view and/or "See All slides" view after I click on a slide (rather than going back to a full screen/slide, where I just have to click on the See All Slides button again each time)?  My slide show must go through the slides at random (not in a pre-determined order), so I just want to click on the slide as I need it.

Answer 1

Hi Pat,

In order to navigate to a chosen slide in your presentation while in Presenter View, you can add an object that you can click to go to that slide. For example, you add a picture then add an action to this(eg. go to a certain slide). Once you're in Presenter View and click this, it will take you to the slide you linked to it. You may follow the steps provided in this article to do so.

Feel free to post back should you need further assistance.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, no, there's no such view available.  This would be a great suggestion to make on UserVoice, though; that's the best way to get feature ideas in front of the people who work on PowerPoint.

I don't see where Katrina's suggestion would work in your situation, but did you know that you can type a slide's number and press Enter to go directly to that slide while in slide show view?  It doesn't give you any visual index of slides, though.

You might also want to experiment with putting PowerPoint in Slide Sorter view before starting the presentation; that'd give you thumbnails to choose from, then you could type the correct number of the slide you want to move to.

Answer 3

Steve and Katrina,

Thanks for your help, but ya, I don't think PowerPoint can do what I was hoping.

Thanks for your time!

Pat