Present it yourself

The room is the highest-stakes place your work ever appears, and the one place a file cannot help you.

1. Open the finished deck and choose Start presenting. It asks for full screen, and the slide fills it: the room sees the work in your brand and nothing else.
2. The controls sit in one menu in the corner: the slide count and the time, the presenter view, your speaker notes, a notepad, and the way out. It hides when you stop moving the pointer.
3. Open the presenter view in a second window: your speaker notes, the slide coming next, and the sources behind the one you are on. Its header says it is in sync with the audience screen and which slide the room is on, and the notes scroll in their own box.
4. The arrow keys move both windows at once. The room sees only the slide.
5. Share the audience window, and keep the presenter window on your own screen.
6. Take notes as you go, from the menu or with the T key. Each note is filed with the slide that was on screen when you started typing, so a question from the room stays with the slide it was about.
7. Afterwards, the deck's review shows them under Notes from presenting, grouped by each time you presented and naming each slide as it was shown. Jump to the slide, or tick a follow-up done.
8. Take a handout with you if the room wants something to keep.

Presenting full screen, with the presenter window beside it and a note from the room kept for afterwards.