New, separate window in PowerPoint

New, separate window in PowerPoint

I'm trying to open two PowerPoint 2007 documents, and they are open, but they're STUCK in the same window. I can't look at both presentations simultaneously, which is what I want to do. I want to open each presentation in ITS OWN, SEPARATE WINDOW, like in MS-Word how you can have two documents open and they'd be in two separate, draggable windows. I want OUT of the MDI and just have two completely separate windows!

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Guest [Entry]

"With Sandboxie you can run multiple instances of pretty much any program and indeed MS Powerpoint. Of course there's much more to Sandboxie than that :)

When Sandboxie is installed, simply right-click on the Powerpoint executable (POWERPNT.EXE) or a shortcut you have created. it will not work with the default MS Office shortcuts! (the reason for that is probably related to this question i posted a few weeks ago) and select Run sandboxed, this will start Powerpoint inside the sandbox (virtualized).

Here's a screenshot with 3 sandboxed Powerpoint 2003 sessions (it will most certainly work with with PPT 07), you can see the titlebar # # indicating that a program is running sandboxed, the top window was started normally.

Note: if you make changes and want to save a document inside a sandbox, make sure to recover the document before deleting the sandbox (or save the file at a location wich is listed for Quick Recovery in the sandbox settings and you will be prompted for recovery immediately).

With the registered version, you can create multiple sandboxes (only 1 with the unregistered version), if you need more than 2 instances.

As a neat bonus, Sandboxie will greatly add to your security when you run the web browser inside a sandbox. benefits of the registered version: force programs to run inside the sandbox, create multiple sandboxes, you may install sandbox on as many computers as you own with a single license.

Note: Sandboxie is not available for Windows 64-bit."

Guest [Entry]

"Before opening the file, go to the location (desktop or folder) where the file is located and:

Right Click your file and choose Open With
Choose Internet Explorer...if you do not see Internet Explorer as one of your options, then:

got to Choose **Default Program**
then go to **Browse** and choose the **Internet Explorer** folder
then choose **iexplore.exe**
then hit **open**

The PowerPoint file will open in Internet Explorer and you maybe prompted to choose to Open or Save the file, choose Open Note:Uncheck Always use the selected program to open this kind of file (unless you want all of your PowerPoint slides to open in Internet Explorer)
Your file will open as a slide show, so in order to edit the file, Right Click and go to Edit Slides"