Q: Problems Projecting a PowerPoint (2015) Presentation to External Monitor/Display/Projector
I am having trouble presenting PowerPoint (2015) presentations on my MacBook Air (Early 2015). When I go to Slide Show -> Play from Start, or when I click on the shortcut presentation button at the bottom of my document, I get presenter's view on my mac book but no slide show on the external display. My background image DOES display on the external display. So the computer and monitor are communicating appropriately. My computer is selected as the controlling display. When I go to Slide Show -> Set up show, the external monitor is selected for display. The only way I can figure out how to display the presentation is to select "Swap Displays" from presenter's view, and then go to the external display and select swap displays to switch them back. One other weird thing. If I mouse over the main presentation slide while in presenter's view on my laptop (nothing but the background image showing on the external display) the presentation gets confused and tried to show the presenter's view AND the presentation both on my laptop. Help! PowerPoint slides are an important part of my job, and this is really getting annoying.
Thank you for any ideas/solutions!
MacBook Air, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3), Microsoft PowerPoint 2015
Posted on Feb 2, 2016 11:26 AM