How to: Start a presentation conference as the presenter.
Solution:
Select the 'Presenter' radio button, in the 'Presentation Conference Wizard' dialog box.
NOTE 1: The following features are NOT supported on audience member machines during a presentation conference: shared applications (such as 'Microsoft Graph'); OLE applications (such as another Office application); embedded multimedia objects (such as .wav, .mid, or .avi files).
NOTE 2: The following features are supported during a presentation conference: builds effects; transition effects; the 'Slide Navigator'; the 'blacking the screen' effect; the annotation tool (i.e., the pen); the 'Meeting Minder' (to take notes); and branching to non-shared, non-OLE, non-embedded objects, slides, or presentations.
1) Select the 'Tools' menu and select 'Presentation Conference...'. (The Presentation Conference Wizard introduction dialog box appears.)
2) Select the 'Presenter' radio button.
Presenter
3) Click 'Next'. (A second Presentation Conference Wizard dialog box appears.)
4) Select the desired check boxes for the utilities to use on the presenter's controlling computer.
Utilities
NOTE: The 'Meeting Minder' and 'Slide Navigator' check boxes are selected by default.
5) Click 'Next'. (A third Presentation Conference Wizard dialog box appears.)
NOTE: To make changes to any previous steps before continuing, click 'Back'.
6) Type the name of a computer to which to connect in the 'Computer Name' box.
Computer name
NOTE: To find the name of a network computer, open 'Control Panel', open the 'Network' dialog box, and click the 'Identification ' tab.
7) Click 'Add'. (The computer name just typed appears in the connection list box.)
Add button
8) Type the name of another computer to which to connect in the 'Computer Name' box.
9) Click 'Add' again. (The computer name just typed appears in the connection list box.)
10) Repeat steps 8) and 9) for the name of each network computer that will participate in the presentation.
NOTE: To save the list now appearing in the connection list box (to reuse it at another time) click 'Save List...'.
11) Click 'Next'. (The final Presentation Conference Wizard dialog box appears.)
12) Click 'Finish'. (Connections are established, and various screens and dialog boxes appear, depending on the utilities selected in step 4).)
NOTE 1: 'Slide Show In A Window' shows the presenter what the audience sees.
NOTE 2: The 'Stage Manager' dialog box allows the presenter to control the slide show.
