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  Help with PowerPoint Presentations

ppticon.gif (370 bytes)  On these pages a PowerPoint icon links you to presentations about a selected topic. If you click on the icon, you will run PowerPoint to view the presentation.
For PowerPoint presentations:
Using Internet Explorer

In Explorer, PowerPoint will run inside the browser window.

You can switch the browser window to fill the full screen by choosing Browse | Full screen (i.e., select the Browse menu; on the Browse menu, select Full screen).

Or:

FullScreenUp.jpg (1155 bytes) You can use the full-screen button on the Explorer toolbar to increase the size of the PowerPoint slide show so that the slides are readable.
FullScreenDown.jpg (956 bytes) The full-screen button works like a toggle switch: when it is down, you can click it again to return the Explorer window to its prior size.
  • Once in a slide show, you can move through the slides by pressing the Page Down and Page Up keys.
  • When the slide show is over, click the left mouse button once to return to the first slide, then click the browser's Back button to return to the prior page.
Using Netscape communicator

If you are using Netscape communicator, the software will load the PowerPoint file into PowerPoint itself. To do this, you will have to move through several dialog boxes:

PickAppScreen.jpg (9837 bytes) Netscape will ask you whether you wish to pick an application to run the file, or save it to disk. Use the left button of the mouse to choose Pick App…
ConfigureExternalViewer.jpg (7971 bytes) At this point, the browser wants you to specify an application that will run the file. You do not need to do this: all you need to do here is click OK
OpeningPPTfile.jpg (19624 bytes) Use this dialog box to tell Netscape to open the file directly: choose Open it, then click OK.You will then see the file being loaded into PowerPoint 97, which will give you the presentation in edit mode rather than slide show view.
  • SlideShowButton.jpg (751 bytes)  You will need to run the slide show by clicking on the slide show button in the lower left corner of the PowerPoint window.  The PowerPoint slide presentation will take up your entire screen, and most slides should be easily visible.
  • When you are finished viewing the slide show, you can close PowerPoint or ALT+TAB back to Netscape.

Help is also available for using video presentations.