Jan 14 2021 02:11 PM - edited Jun 11 2021 01:22 PM
Wish you could get some extra help behind the scenes while presenting in a Teams meeting? Check out our new Presenter View! Once you select a PowerPoint file from the Teams Share Tray, Presenter View is opened automatically. You can see the current slide, the slide notes, and a thumbnail strip of all the slides in the deck for easy ad-hoc slide navigation.
This view is completely behind the scenes. It’s private to the presenter in control. Your audience can only see your current slide (highlighted in the big red box), or the slide that they choose to navigate to (if audience navigation is not locked by you).
If you have a co-presenter for the meeting, when that person clicks “Take Control”, Presenter View will be opened for him or her immediately, while you’ll be switched to the normal audience view without the slide notes and the thumbnail strip.
Completed, fully available in R3.6.
No setup needed. This is a view private to the presenter in control. Once the feature is available to you, you will see it if sharing a PowerPoint during a Teams meeting. Under Share tray > PowerPoint, choose a file and you will see the slide notes and the thumbnails of all of the slides.
Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.
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Enable your Teams client for the public preview
For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs.
Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback.
Thank you,
Preview Team @Emily Kirby
Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
Feb 09 2021 08:51 AM
Feb 11 2021 11:55 PM
Since you can't disable this, any meeting room in the world, where people are still connecting their laptops to an HDMI and presenting in the room, is now forced to watch the presentation in the top-right corner of the screen while perusing the presenters private notes.
I'm managing an estate of 200 meeting rooms like this, and I'm so exited I could chew my own head off.
Not exactly thought through, is it?
Feb 13 2021 11:03 AM
SolutionFor 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!
Feb 13 2021 12:14 PM
Feb 13 2021 11:16 PM
Feb 13 2021 11:21 PM - edited Feb 13 2021 11:24 PM
I want to say thanks however it has taken a week for you to recognise this problem in the first place and secondly this feature is live, people here are not in the public preview so thanking people for being part of it is a nice way of trying to sweep this under the rug instead of apologising for how this went live when it shouldn't of and how you will make sure things like this don't happen again.
Feb 14 2021 01:15 AM
Feb 19 2021 12:14 AM
This certainly was a quick response and is greatly appreciated! However, a toggle switch would still be more beneficial than asking end users to remember a keyboard shortcut. Where a user may be working across a device with a larger screen and a device with a smaller screen, having a varied user experience forced between the two could cause frustration. Having a toggle slider would alleviate this.
Feb 22 2021 06:50 AM
I didn't like this feature. Makes it dificult to read what is beeing presentend on the slide. I prefer the traditional mode. How can I unable this?
Thanks
Feb 22 2021 08:32 AM
Feb 24 2021 09:55 AM
Hi,
Very excited to suddenly have the preview available and see my notes on screen yesterday - complete auto cue experience. But then today, it has disappeared and I just have the PowerPoint main screen and can't see anything to press to bring my notes and slide preview panels back. How to do it please?
Feb 25 2021 02:25 PM
I have used this feature, but when I select "Use Computer Sound" in the new Presenter Mode, no sound comes through. It seems like it does not recognize imbedded sound nor does it recognize video imbedded on a slide. This is the only thing preventing us from using this. Do you have any advise for this issue?
Thank you!
Feb 27 2021 09:07 AM
@Megi-1912 Hi I found this answer on another forum and it works.
ADMINAlex (Teams Engineering, Microsoft Teams) responded · Feb 16, 2021
Thank you for your feedback! We have addressed your usability feedback 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 is now available.
At the same time, we are also working on hiding the presenter view by default on devices with small screens. We will keep you posted when the update is available.
Again, thank you for giving the feedback and helping us make the product better!
Mar 01 2021 11:48 AM
Ironically i am looking to use this feature, i have public preview enabled but i do not see the notes and thumbnails. I have the latest version, i have tried using the Ctrl+Shift+X thinking that maybe this was off, but this hasn't worked. Is there other reasons this might not be working ?
Mar 01 2021 03:28 PM
Hi @KennyJcc, Interesting.. Did this work for you before? What device are you on? (Mac, Windows?)
Mar 01 2021 04:27 PM
Mar 01 2021 11:29 PM - edited Mar 02 2021 11:12 AM
@Emily Kirby
This is on a windows running win10, laptop. I haven’t seen this reported by anyone else and so seems quite strange behaviour. It almost feels like the functionality is there but not showing. I don’t know if this is normal behaviour but if I log on Teams via the web the functionality works as expected, just not using the Teams desktop app.
Mar 02 2021 12:27 AM
They mentioned automatically disabling this feature for smaller screens with lower resoloutions. If you've got 12" laptops with 720p displays, that may be the cause.
Mar 02 2021 03:22 AM
Well, this is weird. Yesterday, I was able to toggle the presenter view on and off with Ctrl+Shift+X, but it seems to have stopped working. I am working (teaching) on a laptop, but I have to say that this function was really helpful, although the slides appeared quite small. In some classes, being able to view the following slides was very useful for me (and the notes also, in some cases). Being able to control the flow of the presentation, instead of searching for the slide that I wanted to move to is essential for the experience of both the students and the instructor. And since I was able to switch the presenter view on and off at will, there was no problem with the size of the slides. And I really do not like sharing the powerpoint window or -worse- the whole screen , since it just complicates things. I guess that just adding the option to use this feature or not would solve this problem.