Real-Time Presenter Notes Edits Through Teams – A Look Back to September 2022
Microsoft Teams has a huge selection of tools to make life easier – including real-time collaboration! This tool is just as useful as it was when Troy first talked about it in September of 2022, and the guide he wrote is still handy today!
As a follow up to an earlier blog post (Edit Presenter Notes Live While Presenting!), I have been leveraging Microsoft Teams real-time collaboration (which I find an amazing tool!) for updating presenter notes for quite a while. The process is very easy, assuming you are running Office 365 and have a Microsoft Teams account. The presentation file is uploaded to Microsoft Teams. I open the PowerPoint file using the OPEN > OPEN IN APP, so desktop PowerPoint is used (vs. Teams or PowerPoint for Web). The SAME presentation is opened on the show computer (the computer running the slide show) and on my production computer. The only limitation is the internet connection speed (which is a constant concern while working in a hotel ballroom!). My goal is to NOT touch the show computer, I like it to just present – never lose focus on the slide show, never escape out of slide show.
I make edits on my production/design computer, and they show up on the presentation computer – including presenter notes!
-Troy @ TLC
This is from our Look Back series, rediscovering previous blog posts with relevant PowerPoint tips, tricks and examples. The original September 29th, 2022 blog post can be found here.
