Getting started with and using PowerPoint Live

Trying to manage your PowerPoint presentation, participants, reactions, and the chat pane in Microsoft Teams can be quite challenging, especially if you only have one monitor connected to your computer. Even when you do have two monitors, handling the various overlapping windows can be overwhelming.

That is when the PowerPoint Live feature can help you. You will find it when clicking on the Share button (1) in your Teams meeting window (Figure 13.1):

Figure 13.1 – Starting PowerPoint Live from the Share screen feature in Teams

Let’s start by defining a few settings you have in the sharing options:

• Include computer sound (2): Make sure you toggle this option on if your presentation includes sound. This is the only way attendees will hear it.
• The Presenter mode section (3): This allows you to share your content only (4), use Standout mode (5) to overlap your video feed on top of...