by brainier » Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:28 pm
In the PowerPoint thumbnail view, I would like to request that once PowerPoint is running a slide show (controled via ZW), the next slide is shown rather than the current slide. I can see the contents of the current slide in the Preview window (and on the projector screen), but unless I shrink the Song/PowerPoint column in the management program to make small slides I only get the see half of the next slide. If I shrink the thumbnails to see "more" of them, the text becomes harder to read! So it sort of defeats the object.
If using Presenter View in PowerPoint you get the see the current slide and the next and previous regardless of screen real-estate. This allows one to change to the next slide without having first to scroll down the preview column to see the next slide. Therefore moving on in the slideshow can be solely a keyboard driven task. At our church the computer operator changes the slides for the preacher during the sermon by "guessing" when next to change, based on what has been said - so currently I always move onto the next slide and then scroll down the the slide that will be shown after that so that I can see what is coming next.