Mirorred Image required

[stann]

Hello,

Our church uses a Cat5e line to feed the pastor's Powerpoint presentation from his laptop located at the side of the pulpit to the Video Projection Booth Kramer Switcher, then to the projector. The Cat5e line is approx 100ft. Both the transmitter and receiver units are AVI products. They work well. The problem is that whenever the pastor (or even a visiting speaker) hook their laptop(s) to the Cat5e line, Powerpoint gives a Presenter View on the laptop monitor, and the full size presentation on the projector. Please note that this problem happens for both XP and Vista.

Example: using a Powerpoint 2007 presentation, within the Slide Show tab, "use Presenter View" is NOT selected. Within the "Set Up Slide Show" dialogue box, "Sow Presenter View" is again NOT selected. A selection is made to "display slide show on": secondary monitor. We desperately would like a mirrored image on both the laptop monitor and the projector feed.

Does anyone have an answer or suggestion? Further relevent questions are welcomed.

[[Admin] osborn4]

Is the Cat5 adapter plugged into the vga port on the laptop?

If so, you should be able to go into Display settings and see about the "Extend my desktop to this monitor" option on the Settings tab (XP. Vista is a little different). Turn that off if you want both screens to be the same. But they will both need to be the same resolution to do that.

Many laptops have a funtion key that toggles between laptop monitor, external monitor and both. This may come into play, also.

[zactommo]

I think Fn F5 is the usual way of switching between display modes.

The key is that if you want mirrored pictures on both screens, then your video card in the laptop needs to be on mirrored mode. So, when not in powerpoint, so should see the desktop of the computer, or whatever you see on the laptop screen, on the projector screen also. You cannot set up powerpoint as far as I am aware to display the presentation on both screens when your graphics card is in extended desktop mode.

I'm not quiet sure why you'd want to set it up this way, but nonetheless, you asked.