Run multiple PowerPoint presentations from one computer
The Native PowerPoint Launcher allows you to run different slide shows on different monitors from one computer, in full screen mode, in any resolution and orientation settings. You can run the same PowerPoint presentation on all screens or a different presentation on each screen.
In the followin guide we will demonstrate how to open different PowerPoint presentations on each display screen, using the new feature in Monitors Anywhere.
We encourage you to read a case study on one of our customer’s installations who used our solution to run different slideshows from a single PC on six display screens.
PowerPoint Viewer is a mandatory component for Monitors AnyWhere to be able to run multiple presentations on your digital sigange TV screens.
Since the release of Monitors AnyWhere v2.5.0.14 , the installation of PowerPoint Viewer is done at the first stages of the setup.
You can either upgrade to the most recent version or install PowerPoint Viewer manually by following the steps below:
Install PowerPoint Viewer 2010 from the following link:
http://monitorsanywhere.com/PPT/
Make sure you install both the PowerPointViewer and the Service Pack2 (SP2) from this link.
Make sure that your presentation is set with the following configurations:
In PowerPoint please go to Slide Show tab and select
“Setup Slide Show”
– Under Show type > Select – Presented by a speaker (Full screen)
– Under Show options > Select – Loop continuously until ‘Esc’
In order to set the presentation to run in full screen you’ll need to configure it with the right screen size. If you have a wide screen you’ll need to set the screen size to 16:9 configuration and if you have square screen you’ll need to set it to 4:3.
Watch YouTube Tutorial here:
You can download this demo presentation to preform tests on your system:
Supermarket (16:9, wide screen).
After you’ve succesfuly installed PowerPoint Viewer we can go on and set the configuration in Monitors AnyWhere:
Choose the TV screen you would like to set for showing the presentation. Select the monitor by clicking once on its thumbnail or from the list of monitors.
Press on the New button from the list at the bottom.
The Browse window will open:
The first field (Application field) is used to select the application you wish to open.
Please select the application MAWPowerPointLauncher from the dropdown list.
On the second field select the presentation file you wish to open.
Finally press on the Save and Send button.
Repeat all stages above for each display screen.
