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When your walking into a client’s office to do a presentation from your laptop, it’s nice if you can start the pitch directly in full-screen presentation mode. If you have PowerPoint 2000-2004, here are the steps from the folks at New Horizon Computer Learning Center.
By default, PowerPoint saves your slide show as a PPT file, which, when double-clicked, launches PowerPoint. The slide show opens in whatever view was open when you saved it—Slide view, Normal view, or Slide Sorter view. If you want your slide show to immediately launch in Slide Show view, however, you need to save your file as a PowerPoint Show using the .pps extension.
- Choose File | Save As to launch the Save As dialog box.
- Select PowerPoint Show (*.pps) from the Save As Type dropdown list.
- Type a name for your slide show in the File Name text box and click OK.
Now, the next time you or anyone else opens your presentation from outside of PowerPoint, your slide show immediately launches in Slide Show view. When you navigate past the last slide, the file automatically closes. To open the file for editing, launch PowerPoint, and use the File > Open dialog box.
