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It wasn't all plain sailing, though - the battery conked out in the wireless microphone. Can anybody recommend a good megaphone?

Update: bought this remote, tested it fine on my laptop, and took it to the session on Thursday. Presentation went perfectly - the guy turned up with his own projector and Kodak slides. Transparencies. Good, old fashioned technology! :facepalm:

Oi, don't you start :wrong:

I'm afraid you're missing the point of this thread. They can ALREADY use PowerPoint if they want to, either on their own laptops, or on the group laptop (as long as they supply the .ppt file on a flash drive). The existing remote control works fine for PowerPoint, so that is a non-issue. As a...

Wow, the nuclear option! Ideal for the situation you mentioned (I can imagine myself using it on the sofa), but probably OTT for a speaker advancing slides.(standing in front of an audience). Cheers.

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No. As I've made clear, enforcing PowerPoint is not an option. Those that choose to use it with their own laptops are welcome to do so, but even if I got £20 approved for Office 2010, the U3A laptop is shared by multiple groups and isn't available for preparing PowerPoint presentations in...

Good idea for testing. :thumbsup:

To be clear, it's not my presentation, and these aren't people who regularly do presentations. They are just members who have travelled somewhere interesting, and have photos to illustrate their talks. A few have PowerPoint presentations, but most wouldn't know how to create them, and some have...

Yeah, although binky's suggested remote control looks worth a flutter - it's much more elaborate than the one we've got.

Hmm, so why would our existing remote control not work? Somebody else bought it, and I don't have the equipment with me. Are there different types of remote control that send different key codes? I appreciate the offer, but a 500 mile round-trip would be more expensive and take longer than a...

That wouldn't really help - the laptop sits on a table at the side of the hall, and the speaker needs something they can hold and press while standing nearer the screen. Thinking about it, what we need is a small wireless keyboard with just the "left" and "right" arrows!

Technical help wanted! I help at a local U3A group which uses a laptop and digital projector for amateur travel presentations - sometimes PowerPoint, sometimes a bunch of JPG images. Previously, the U3A projector was connected to the laptop via USB cable, which allowed us to use the projector's...