Keynote on dual monitors during Zoom
11/03/25 Filed in: zoom
My dissertation defense is tomorrow on Zoom, which includes a slideshow presentation. I realized that if I connect my laptop to my monitor, which allows me to see everything better, my slides don’t always advance properly, especially the ones that use the “appear” animation function within slides (on Keynote). Can you think of a solution? It’s not a do or die situation, but would definitely enhance my experience if I could get that to work.
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First thing I would consider is which display the slide show presents on. Check if you are mirroring both monitors or do you have separate monitor set ups. You can try a few variations of monitor set ups.
Closing the laptop and only using a bigger monitor
Keeping the laptop open and just having the exact same screen on both (yuck)
Keeping the laptop open and having double the screen space (Yay!)
So then playing the slideshow on a different monitor may produce different results. Keep in mind that when using Zoom with multiple monitors, you need to let Zoom know if you are sharing only the left one, only the right one, or both. Sharing both monitors via Zoom results in the viewers seeing a way smaller space however.
Hope that helps. And of course you may want to practice switching zoom sharing between monitors. Good luck. Defend!!!
___________
First thing I would consider is which display the slide show presents on. Check if you are mirroring both monitors or do you have separate monitor set ups. You can try a few variations of monitor set ups.
Closing the laptop and only using a bigger monitor
Keeping the laptop open and just having the exact same screen on both (yuck)
Keeping the laptop open and having double the screen space (Yay!)
So then playing the slideshow on a different monitor may produce different results. Keep in mind that when using Zoom with multiple monitors, you need to let Zoom know if you are sharing only the left one, only the right one, or both. Sharing both monitors via Zoom results in the viewers seeing a way smaller space however.
Hope that helps. And of course you may want to practice switching zoom sharing between monitors. Good luck. Defend!!!
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