Update the PowerPoint app if you see that one is available. Step 4: Press Command + R to refresh the page. Step 3: Select the Updates option from the left menu. Step 2: Click on the App Store icon to open it. Alternatively, you can press Command+Space to launch Spotlight search bar, type in App Store, and press Return to launch the Mac App Store directly. This could be happening on your Mac because of a bug in the current version of the PowerPoint app. If force quit and restart didn’t help, your second option is to check for an app update. Step 3: Select Microsoft PowerPoint from the list of applications. Step 2: Select Force Quit from the drop-down menu. Step 1: Click the Apple logo in the top-left corner. Follow these steps to force quit and relaunch PowerPoint. Next, you can try to relaunch the app to check if it opens properly. Whenever the PowerPoint app fails to open on your Mac, you may force quit it to shut it down completely. This post will cover the best solutions to fix Microsoft PowerPoint not opening on Mac. You can then have your Zoom window open in one desktop and run your presentation in the other with just the full-screen powerpoint being shared, depending on where you put your mouse cursor.However, if you can’t open the PowerPoint app on Mac, it becomes an obstacle in your workflow.

In that desktop, you can launch Zoom (or other VC app), then when you start sharing select just the specific desktop with the full-screen presentation to share. Now, in PowerPoint you can launch your presentation, then with the mouse cursor on the presenter notes page, switch to another Space/desktop (the three-finger swipe left or right, for me). Also in System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures, have Swipe between full-screen apps set to something you like (I use three-finger left/right swipe). Then, ensure you have at least three Spaces (desktops) by going into Mission Control (personally, I have it set to a three-finger swipe up, you can set that in System Preferences > Trackpad > More Gestures), and moving the cursor to the top of the screen, there's a (+) button at the top right. Go to System Preferences > Mission Control and tick the box for Displays have separate Spaces. When in presenter view, the presenter notes page 'takes over' a desktop, but you can have multiple desktops on your Mac. Now I understand what you're trying to do.

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