Presenter View is a secret view that’s only for you! It’s a way of seeing your notes and upcoming slides while your audience sees only the current slide as usual.

Here’s what Presenter View looks like.

What can you do with Presenter View?

As you can see, Presenter View has 3 panes: your slide, your notes, and the upcoming slide or animation. Plus there are several controls at the top and bottom. Here are some great Presenter View features:

• You can resize the panes by dragging on their border. For example, you might want to make the Notes pane larger and the Slide pane smaller
• At the bottom of the Notes pane, you can use the Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons (they look like the letter “A”) to get the Notes text just the size you want, so it’s easily readable.
• At the upper-left of the slide is a timer that keeps you on track.
• Beneath the slide, you have easy access to both forward and back navigation arrows.
• You can also access pen and pointer features by clicking the Pointer Options button below the slide.
• Beneath the slide, you see your current slide and the total number of slides.
• If you have an updated version of PowerPoint, you can edit your notes from within Presenter View. (This is a fairly new feature.)

Here are the controls you can use at the top:

• Show Taskbar displays the Windows taskbar so you can navigate outside of your presentation.
• Display Settings lets you swap which monitor or screen shows the Slide Show and which shows Presenter View. OR you can choose to show Slide Show on both monitors.

The Slide Show Display Menu below the slide gives you options that are similar to right-clicking in Slide Show view:

How do you set up Presenter View?