Microsoft Teams: Take Control of a PowerPoint While Presenting

Overview

Are you tired of awkwardly asking your co-presenter in an online meeting to go to the next slide? In Teams, co-organizers of the meeting can pass control of the presentation back and forth throughout the meeting. For detailed information from Microsoft on all the things you can do using this feature, go to Present content in Microsoft Teams meetings.

Instructions

Requirements:

• Anyone who is presenting MUST be a co-organizer of the meeting.
• The PowerPoint should be saved to OneDrive and opened recently prior to the presentation so it appears on the most recently opened list when sharing.

Here are your step-by-step Instructions:

1. In a Teams meeting, go to the Share button.
    
2. Scroll down until you see the PowerPoint Live section.
   • Select the recently opened PowerPoint that you wish to present
   • Note: this will automatically share sound for you if you have a video in the presentation
     (see image at right)
      
3. When you are finished presenting, your co-organizer needs to select the Take Control button on their Teams window.
   
   
    
4. Make sure to turn on Private View to prevent attendees from being able to tab back and forth through the presentation. If you leave private view off, attendees can skip around to look at other slides in your presentation. They can then choose to sync back up with the presenter when they wish. If you do not want them to be able to do this, you must turn ON Private View. 
   
   
    
5. To take back control, on your screen, tap the Take Control button.
    
6. Then choose Take Back.