These keys will be the targets to which you need to remap the keys of your presenter. If not, you can search it on Google, or simply trying it out in the application. You can check if the keyboard shortcuts of your application are listed in the application’s manual. Which Keys Does My Presentation Software Use? So, now you have to find out which keyboard shortcuts your specific presentation application uses. Even Microsoft Power Point under Mac uses Cmd-Shift-Enter to enter Slide Show Mode, rather than F5. The dot key hides the current slide.ĭifferent presentation applications use different keys for these tasks. F5 enters Slide Show Mode and Esc exits it. These functions are clearly targeted at Microsoft Power Point under Windows. The functions of these keys, as revealed by Keyboard Viewer, are as follows: Presenter Key The Logitech R700 Presenter has four keys, as show on this picture: Now, just press all the keys on your presenter and observe which keys get highlighted in the Keyboard Viewer. If you click Show Keyboard Viewer, a small keyboard appears on the screen, which highlights every key as it is pressed. You find it in the Input Menu of the menu bar, as shown below: To find out the functions of the keys on your presenter, open Apple’s built-in Keyboard Viewer. What Functions Do The Keys On My Presenter Have? Which keys does your presentation software use?.What function do the keys on your presenter have?.If your presenter doesn’t work with your presentation software, you need to know two things in order to make it work: However, your specific presentation software might use other keys for switching between slides, and in this case the presenter seems to “not work”. These default functions of presenter keys are chosen like this, because many presentation applications (for example, Microsoft Power Point) used Page Up and Page Down to switch between slides in presentation mode. This means that pressing the Next key on the presenter is really just the same thing as pressing Page Down on the computer keyboard. In many presenters, the Next and Previous keys are mapped to Page Down and Page Up. The most important of these keys are the Next and Previous keys, which are supposed to switch to the next and previous slide in the presentation, respectively. How Does A Wireless Presenter Work?Ī wireless presenter is basically just a wireless keyboard with very few keys. This document explains how to remap the keys of the presenter, to make it work with a specific presentation software. A wireless presenter is a very useful device for switching between the full-screen slides in a presentation.