Technical Note: 20050309003
PowerPoint Presentation on ITC8020 Dual Screen Workstation
OfficeOne's PowerShow addin allows viewing a slide show on the secondary
monitor while you continue performing sales on the primary monitor of
a workstation supporting two monitors. Microsoft's PowerPoint could start
a slide show on the secondary monitor on its own, but if you performed
sales on the primary monitor, the slide show would pause. PowerShow does
away with this restriction.
Installation and Setup procedures
Add PowerPoint and PowerShow to your workstation:
Install Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, 2002 (XP) or 2003, on a Workstation
running Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP.
Download the PowerShow addin available at; http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow_download.html
and install it on your Workstation, using the default folder and settings.
Add PowerShow functionalities to PowerPoint:
1. Launch PowerPoint. 2. In Tools / Macros / Security / Security Level,
select "Medium". 3. In Tools / Macros / Security / Trusted Sources,
enable the "Trust all installed add-ins and templates" option.
4. Click on OK 5. In Tools / Add-Ins, click "Add New..." 6.
Select the "PowerShow" addin in the dialog box shown. If you
do not see the addin, locate "PowerShow.ppa" in "C:\Program
Files\OfficeOne\PowerShow\". 7. Click on "OK". 8. Click
on "Close".
Note: If the "Security Level" was previously set to
"High", once PowerShow was added, you can set it back to "High"
without affecting any installed addins.
Configure the PowerShow session:
1. Open the PowerPoint presentation to be displayed on the secondary monitor,
for example, "Seven Wonders.ppt". 2. In Slide Show / Power Show,
the PowerShow Session Settings window shows that your workstation has
2 monitors. The 1st Span field represents the primary monitor, and the
2nd Span field represents the secondary monitor. 3. To leave the primary
monitor available for the Maitre'D Workstation application, set the 1st
Span field to "SkipMonitor". 4. To display the PowerPoint slide
show on the secondary monitor, set the 2nd Span field to "Seven Wonders.ppt
"Slide Show" 5. Click on the "Start Show" button to
start the PowerShow session. Make the presentation start on Boot up: 1.
Use the File / Save As function to save the presentation in the "C:\Program
Files\OfficeOne\PowerShow\" folder. 2. Open a DOS Command Prompt
3. Navigate to the "C:\Program Files\OfficeOne\PowerShow\" folder.
4. Type "Edit Seven Wonders.bat". 5. In the batch file type
"LaunchPowerShow Seven Wonders.ppt -m2 -c1". 6. Exit and Save
the batch file. 7. Close the Command Prompt window. 8. Navigate to the
"C:\Program Files\OfficeOne\PowerShow\" folder. 9. Right click
on the "Seven Wonders.bat" file and choose "Create Shortcut".
10. Move that shortcut to the Startup directory.
