Take Control of Zoom, 2nd Edition

Present in Zoom

One of the most common uses of Zoom is to show stuff to other people: presentations, images, movies, app demonstrations, and much more. While Zoom has robust features for sharing screens, as the previous chapter lays out, it’s surprisingly difficult in some cases to manage the interactions among a presentation app, an operating system’s full-screen mode, and Zoom’s screen-sharing options.

Tip: I can really only recommend presenting from a desktop or laptop computer. On a mobile device, controls and features are so minimal that presenting is an exercise in frustration and limitations, and therefore acceptable only in a pinch.

I count Apple Keynote, Google Slides, and Microsoft PowerPoint as the major presentation options, but ...