I did not want to move my laptop and plug it into the TV via HDMI and use my Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 as I normally do. So I thought I’d try a complicated way to get the slides on the TV.

Firstly, I need to the presentation shared. PowerPoint has this feature, Present Online.

Secondly, I needed a browser on the TV. I don’t have a Smart TV. For all that functionality I use my Xbox 360. On it goes and I launch Internet Explorer which I can fortunately do now without an Xbox Live subscription.

Thirdly, I have a giant URL I need to type in for the presenting online presentation. Doing that on the Xbox controller would be horrible, especially since I can’t see the computer screen and TV at the same time. Instead I connect to the Xbox via Smart Glass from the laptop running the presentation. Here I can just launch the remote control and copy and paste the URL right into the Xbox 360 browser.

Fourthly, I need to control the slide show in front of the TV away from computer. I could just use my Bluetooth presenter mouse. The downside to that however is that I would be missing out on my slide notes. Microsoft has recently released Office Remote. It’s a Microsoft Office add-in with a Windows Phone app. So connecting my phone to my PC via Bluetooth and connecting Office Remote I get slide navigation, speaker notes and more presenter mode features.

Although this is overly-complicated and many moving parts it all connected quickly and easily and gave a good experience. Just goes to show how many options we have to do simple things, and that is just on the Microsoft stack. This was more for experimenting with what could be done. I would not recommend it!