The green box is an indicator of what the audience is seeing. An orange box means you have paused screen sharing.
Upon clicking screen share, select the "Advanced" tab, then "Portion of Screen."ĭrag and re-size the green box so that it wraps around only the area you want to share. This will allow you to move away from slide show mode, while still keeping the presentation ready for screen sharing.
Once in presenter mode, navigate back to Zoom by clicking F3 on a Mac or clicking the windows button on a Windows PC. If nothing is there, it will show your desktop. This method of screen sharing will default to showing whatever is open behind your Zoom window. Each computer may be different so explore.īe sure that your presentation is the only other thing that is open beside Zoom or that it appears right behind your Zoom window with everything else minimized.
Open your presentation and enter slide show mode (i.e., full screen presentation with no notes visible) once there, look for a "Presenter Mode" option (usually visible in the lower left when clicking the "." button. To screen share with notes visible, follow these steps: Once you press "Screen Share", your presentation may appear multiple times (i.e., edit mode + slide show mode) as an option, be sure to select the correct version (slide show) for a seamless transition. To navigate back to Zoom, click F3 on a Mac or click the windows button on a Windows PC. Open your presentation and enter slide show mode (i.e., full screen presentation with no notes visible) If sharing anything with audio during screen sharing, be sure to click “Share Computer Sound” when selecting the item you plan to share be sure to also click “Optimize Screen Sharing for Video Clip” if sharing a video.įor a smooth transition to screen sharing (w/ no notes), consider these steps (IMPORTANT NOTE: practice this well in advance of your event): In the event there is an outage of the file management service you use, you will want to have access to your documents.Ĭompress all images used in your slides to keep file size manageable. Save documents you plan to share to your desktop.