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The "View on Two Screens" feature in PowerPoint is replaced by Multiple Display Support in Windows

Article ID:291896
Last Review:June 1, 2007
Revision:3.1
This article was previously published under Q291896
This article is a consolidation of the following previously available article: 226584

SUMMARY

The following versions of Microsoft Office PowerPoint do not support the View on Two Screens feature from Microsoft PowerPoint 97 and Microsoft PowerPoint 95:
PowerPoint 2007
PowerPoint 2003
PowerPoint 2002
PowerPoint 2000

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MORE INFORMATION

The View on Two Screens functionality in earlier versions of PowerPoint has been replaced by Multiple Display Support in Microsoft Windows. This enables PowerPoint to display a slide show on a secondary monitor that is connected to the same computer as the primary monitor.

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REFERENCES

For more information about multiple monitors, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
182708 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182708/) Hardware requirements for multiple display support in Windows 98
179602 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/179602/) How to enable multiple display support Using Windows 98
182930 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182930/) How to troubleshoot multiple display support in Windows 98/Me
296538 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/296538/) Hardware requirements for multiple-display support in Windows XP
307873 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307873/) How to configure and use multiple monitors in Windows XP

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition
Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition

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Keywords: 
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