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When I was teaching a course back in April I fell in love with the "Presenter view" in PowerPoint. For those who haven't see it, it allows for the slides to be displayed on a projector while your laptop screen shows a smaller version along with the speaker notes and other information. Very handy!

Back then I was running Office 2007 on Windows XP, and all was good. Since then I have upgraded my laptop to run Windows Vista. When I started teaching a class yesterday I found that the presenter view was fine except for the slides appearing as a black square. Not handy!

After some fiddling around I discovered the cause today: Go into the slideshow options and turn off hardware acceleration. I guess the nVidia drivers for Vista aren't quite as robust as they should be.