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If you have Windows 7 and a dual-monitor capable machine (a laptop would do and you don't need second monitor), do the following: 1. Use Win+P keyboard shortcut to bring up the (Connect to projector) window. Click 'Extend' option.
This will bring the second display output 'alive' although no monitor/projector is connected there. In PowerPoint, open your presentation and click 'Slide Show' 'Set Up Show' item, select the slide show to display on monitor 2 and check the 'Show Presenter View' box, click OK. Now start slide show. The presenter view will be on your laptop while PowerPoint is gladly thinking that the slide show is being shown on the second monitor. Chirag PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously. You can fool Windows into thinking that you have an external monitor with a dummy load (hardware) attached to the VGA output.
But, of course, as you only have the one monitor you will have to select which screen you see on your 'real' monitor. If I read you right the Presenters View would need to go on the real screen and the presentation (audience) one on the dummy. I have used this myself. Chris I'm trying to use the presenter view to make a presentation with power point, so just for practice I tried to use it with only one monitor but I can't. Somewhere in the microsoft help site says it is possible, but it just doesn't happen.