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MicrosoftPreview exited, now GA: PowerPoint Presenter View in Teams
For everyone asking for a way to toggle presenter view, thank you for your feedback! We feel your pain and are addressing it with a quick mitigation via a keyboard shortcut for now: try clicking in the slide area, and press "Ctrl+Shift+X". The notes and thumbnail strip should be closed. Using the same keyboard shortcut key again can bring the presenter view back. This update will be available in a day or two.
At the same time, we are also working on hiding the presenter view by default on devices with small screen. It will be available soon.
Again, thank you for being a part of public preview and helping us make the product better!
This is fantastic and was what some of our users were missing, however there seems to be no toggle switch to enable/disable it on a per-presentation basis.
As an education establishment our users are used to a 2160p 75" display and they pack a lot of information into their slides. Using the same slides for remote learning through Teams on a 1080p laptop (or worse) results in the active slide being tiny and the Teacher really struggling to use it. Those that have turned on the public preview (without realising) are now emailing me en mass asking how to turn off presenter mode.
Tony Stevens I agree though for a slightly different reason. If am collaborating with my Team on a presentation the last thing I need to presenter view as I would like to be able to edit the slides that we are discussing. There should be some way of disabling this feature. At present I have to stop sharing edit a point and then re-share the updated version and the whole process is ungainly.
Regards,
Mike Wooldridge