Presenting a slide show with Zoom Slides

Zoom Slides offers three distinct presentation modes to match your delivery style. The Present now mode provides a clean, full-window presentation with essential navigation controls and a customizable laser pointer. Present with speaker view mode opens a dual-window setup, displaying your current slide alongside the upcoming slide and speaker notes with adjustable text size for easy reference. Share with AI narration mode transforms your speaker notes into professional voice-overs using AI Companion, available in multiple languages with customizable voices, closed captions, and shareable presentation links for asynchronous viewing.

Requirements for presenting a slide show with Zoom Slides

• Zoom Slides enabled by an admin

How to present a slide show

1. Open a presentation.
2. In the top right corner, click the Present icon .
3. Select how you want to share the presentation:
   • Present now: Opens the slide deck within the window for presentation.
   • Present with speaker view: Opens the slide deck in the window and a secondary window with slide controls and speaker notes.
   • Share with AI narration: Presents the slide within the window, with generated audio of the speaker notes.
     Note: Click Copy link to create a link to the narrated presentation for sharing. 

How to use slide controls during a presentation

Slide controls available in Present now

1. Open a presentation.
2. In the top right corner, click the Present icon  .
3. Click Present now.
   The following controls will be available during the presentation:
   • Next  / Previous : Allows the navigation between slides.
     Note: Clicking the slide number also allows you to type the desired slide number to go directly to it.
   • Presenter view: Switch the presentation style to Present with speaker view.
   • Fullscreen : Expand the presentation window to full-screen mode. 
   • Laser pointer : Allows the use of a laser pointer during the presentation.
     Note: To select a different laser color, hover over the icon to open the Laser color menu.
   • More :
     • Restart from first slide: Restarts the presentation from the first slide.
     • Keyboard shortcuts: Displays the keyboard shortcuts for managing a presentation.
   • In the top right corner, click Stop presentation  to close the presentation.

Slide controls available in Present with speaker view

1. Open a presentation
2. In the top right corner, click the Present icon  .
3. Click Present with speaker view.
   The current slide will be displayed on the left with the upcoming slide on the right. In addition, the speaker notes will be displayed at the bottom of the window.
   The following controls will be available during the presentation:
   • Next  / Previous : Allows the navigation between slides.
     Note: Clicking the slide number also allows you to type the desired slide number to go directly to it.
   • Laser pointer : Allows the use of a laser pointer during the presentation.
     Note: To select a different laser color, hover over the icon to open the Laser color menu.
   • More :
     • Restart from first slide: Restarts the presentation from the first slide.
     • Keyboard shortcuts: Displays the keyboard shortcuts for managing a presentation.
   • In the top right corner, click Stop presentation  to close the presentation.

In addition to the presentation controls, in the left navigation of the presentation window, you can select a specific slide to move to.

In the speaker notes, click the Decrease font size (-) or Increase font size (+) buttons to change the size of the speaker note text.

Slide controls available in Share with AI narration

1. Open a presentation
2. In the top right corner, click the Present icon .
3. Click Share with AI narration.
   The presentation slide will be displayed, and AI Companion will start generating a voice-over for the speaker notes. Once complete, the narration will start playing for the first slide.
   The following controls will be available during the presentation:
   • Play/Pause: Start or stop the narration.
   • Voice over: Select the voice-over voice and language.
   • Volume : Adjust the volume of the voice-over.
   • Next  / Previous : Allows the navigation between slides.
     Note: Clicking the slide number also allows you to type the desired slide number to go directly to it.
   • Turn off captions / Turn on captions : Disables or enables closed captions for the narration.
   • Enter fullscreen  / Exit fullscreen: Enter or exit full-screen mode. 
   • More :
     • Restart from first slide : Restarts the presentation from the first slide.
     • Keyboard shortcuts : Displays the keyboard shortcuts for managing a presentation.
     • Copy link : Copy the link to the presentation.