PowerShow addin introduces the following powerful slide show features in a machine supporting multi-monitor configuration.

• Feature 1: View the slide show on a monitor while you continue working on something else on another monitor
  You can setup a slide show to show on a secondary monitor if you have multiple monitor support. By design of PowerPoint, when you try to do anything else on any other monitor, the slide show would freeze. PowerShow works around this limitation to enable you to continue working on a monitor while the slide show runs on other one.
  Feature 2: View different presentations on different monitors simultaneously
  Microsoft PowerPoint enables you to start slide shows on different monitors. By the design of PowerPoint, only one show can be active at any time. PowerShow works around this limitation to enable you to view all the shows simultaneously. All shows started by PowerShow remain active at all times. Multiple videos on the same slide or different slide shows run simultaneously.
  
• Feature 3: View shows in Wide Format - shows can span across multiple monitors all the way up to all available monitors
  Normally slide shows are configured for a 4:3 (Width:Height) ratio since normal monitors have that ratio. For a slide show to span multiple monitors, the show should have those dimensions. A show in Wide Format would have 8:3, 4:1, 16:3 kind of Width:Height ratios. To create such presentations in PowerPoint, set the slide size appropriately as follows:
  Select File | Page Setup... menu item to launch the Page Setup dialog box.
  Select the Slides sized for on screen show. The Width to Height ratio should be 8:3 for shows to span 2 monitors. So, if the Height is set to 7.5 Inches, then the Width should be set to 20 Inches.
  Click OK.
  
• Feature 4: View presentation and notes on separate monitors - keep notes in sync with the slide show
  In addition to running multiple shows simultaneously, PowerShow offers you to view the notes for the shows on a different monitor. This feature enables you to have the notes view visible to the presenter and the slide show view to be visible to the audience. PowerShow keeps the notes synchronized with the currently showing slide
  
• Feature 5: View shows on multiple panels - shows can span across multiple monitors in box layout
  Multi-panel systems are usually arranged in matrix layouts to collectively form a big screen. PowerShow supports such configurations to enable you to span a PowerPoint slide show across the width and height of the layout.
  
• Feature 6: Edit the presentation while the slide show is running
  PowerShow enables you to edit the presentation slides when the slide show is running. Edit the file on one monitor while the slide show is running on another.
  
• Feature 7: Control multiple slide shows from a single terminal
  PowerShow introduces Session Controller that enables you to control all the slide shows started in a PowerShow Session. See Session Controller screenshot below.
  
• Feature 8: Slide design view can stay in-sync with slide show and vice-versa
  The slide design view can stay in-sync with the projected slide show. This makes it possible to view the slides in the design view on your laptop while the slide show is beamed through the projector.
  The slide show can stay in-sync with the slide sorter view. This enables you select a slide in the slide sorter view and PowerShow will beam that slide in the slide show.
  
• Feature 9: View same slide show on multiple monitors
  You can now view the same slide show on multiple monitors. PowerShow will keep the slide shows in sync with each other. Using this feature, for instance, you can elect to show presentations in different languages on different monitors and they would be kept in sync with each other. See Synchronous Shows screenshot below.
• Feature 10: The supported number of shows and the number of monitors is only limited by the system resources
  PowerShow supports all the monitors that are connected to the system. The default PowerShow Session Settings dialog box enables you to configure 7 items in the session. It also provides the Add More Rows button that enables you to add additional items if needed.

Session Controller

Synchronous Shows

You can download a Trial version to test if it will suit your needs.

Microsoft Windows 98 or more
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, PowerPoint 2002 (XP), PowerPoint 2003

US$99.95 PowerShow