PowerShow allows
you to run multiple slide shows simultaneously. In many cases, you would
want to navigate forward and back through all those slide shows
simultaneously. While there are quite a few ways of achieving this, here
are 5 methods.
When a PowerShow session starts, the PowerShow SlideShow Navigator gets created.
PowerShow SlideShow Navigator gets created in the Add-Ins tab in the ribbon.
It has buttons that allow you to navigate through all
running slide shows at the same time.
Only one window can have keyboard input at any point of
time. If you want to use the keyboard to navigate through both the slide
shows simultaneously, you need to use
Shortcut Manager add-in
from
http://www.officeoneonline.com/ppsctmgr/ppsctmgr.html. The Shortcut
Manager add-in allows you to define keyboard shortcuts to PowerPoint
menu items and macros. The companion add-in
Shortcuts for PowerPoint
at
http://www.officeoneonline.com/ppshortcuts/ppshortcuts.html adds a lot of
macros to PowerPoint and allows Shortcut Manager to define shortcuts to
these additional macros.
Download and install "Shortcuts for PowerPoint" add-in as
well as "Shortcut Manager". After that do the following:
- Select Tools | Customize Shortcuts... menu item.
- Locate and select Shortcuts for PowerPoint category.
- Locate and select Next slide on all slide shows command.
- Assign a keyboard combination in Assigned shortcut to command box.
- Locate and select Previous slide on all slide shows command.
- Assign a keyboard combination in Assigned shortcut to command box.
- Click OK button.
Now during a PowerShow session, when you press the assigned
keyboard combination, all your slide shows will navigate next or
previous simultaneously.
In this method, you elect one slide show as a "master"
slide show and others as "followers". When you navigate through the
master slide show, PowerShow will synchronize the follower slide shows
to match the master slide show. This feature of PowerShow is called
Synchronous Shows and is described in more detail at
http://www.officeoneonline.com/powershow/powershow_sync_shows.html.
The
PowerShow Session
Controller allows you to control all slide shows from a single
console. It has a page for each running
slide show. In addition, there is an
All Shows page that allows you
to control all running slide shows simultaneously. Session Controller
allows you to use your remote presenter devices to control the slide shows
remotely. When you are on the
All Shows page, the remote presenter device would control all running
slide shows.
Slide Show Controller is a Windows desktop app
that allows you to
control all running slide shows simultaneously. You can now navigate all
running slide shows, exit out of all running slide shows, pause and resume
slide shows at a click of a button. Slide Show Controller can run in the
background while you focus on your slide shows. You can also assign a
global keyboard shortcut to the controls and use them without having to
bring up Slide Show Controller in the foreground.