{"id":1535,"date":"2009-10-01T22:19:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/windowsp-is-the-presenters-friend.htm"},"modified":"2009-10-01T22:49:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T22:49:52","slug":"windowsp-is-the-presenters-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/windowsp-is-the-presenters-friend.htm","title":{"rendered":"Windows+P is the presenters&#8217; friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent most of today working with my friend and (soon to be ex-) colleague, David Saxon, as he delivered a Windows 7 Skills Update course to a selection of IT Professionals from within the company that we work for, with a small amount of support from me.  Watching Dave present reminded me of something I meant to blog about last week when I was delivering a Windows 7 presentation to around 40 senior architects from our company at Microsoft&#8217;s UK Campus in Reading &#8211; the Windows 7 shortcut for Presenter Mode, <code>Windows<\/code>+<code>P<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the days of XP (and even Vista), setting a notebook PC up with a projector required lots of jiggerypokery with function keys and display driver settings.  In the world of Windows 7, I just plug in the cable to connect to the presenter, press and hold down the <code>Windows<\/code> key whilst pressing <code>P<\/code>, and I&#8217;m given four simple options to chose from: computer only; duplicate; extend; and projector only.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/win-p.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Windows+P\" class=\"inline\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Simple!  My preference is always extend, as it allows me to use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/04\/powerpoint-2007s-presenter-view-is-a-fantastic-tool.htm\">Presenter View in PowerPoint<\/a> to view my notes and the upcoming slides on one screen, with the slide show on the projector (and that seemed to work as I&#8217;m pretty pleased with the feedback I got for my presentation, only being beaten by the Microsoft presenters who spend far more time in front of an audience than I do).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.win7deployment.com\/clintongarbutt\/2009\/07\/windows-key-p-presentation-mode\/\"><code>Windows<\/code>+<code>P<\/code> is just one of many useful combinations and Clinton Garbutt mentions <code>Windows<\/code>+<code>X<\/code> (for the Windows Mobility Center) in his post on the subject<\/a> (Clinton also highlights that you can get to the same interface by running <code>displayswitch.exe<\/code>).  If that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/whet%20your%20appetite.html\">whetted your appetite<\/a> then there are a few more Windows shortcuts referenced in the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/2009.10.77windows.aspx\">77 Windows 7 tips TechNet article<\/a> too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve spent most of today working with my friend and (soon to be ex-) colleague, David Saxon, as he delivered a Windows 7 Skills Update course to a selection of IT Professionals from within the company that we work for, with a small amount of support from me. Watching Dave present reminded me of something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/windowsp-is-the-presenters-friend.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows+P is the presenters&#8217; friend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[153,144],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-powerpoint","tag-windows-7"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Windows+P is the presenters&#039; friend - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/windowsp-is-the-presenters-friend.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Windows+P is the presenters&#039; friend - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve spent most of today working with my friend and (soon to be ex-) colleague, David Saxon, as he delivered a Windows 7 Skills Update course to a selection of IT Professionals from within the company that we work for, with a small amount of support from me. 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