Microsoft® Lync™ 2010 communications software makes it easy for you to share
your desktop with others remotely. During a Lync 2010 conversation or online
meeting, you can show your screen to everyone in the conversation or meeting.
Not only can you show them your desktop, you can choose to show only one
program.
You can also deliver Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations and collaborate
with others on a virtual whiteboard, which is a fresh page for notes and
drawings that everyone in the meeting can use together. When you start to share
your desktop or a program, you’re the only one in control. If you want, you can
allow others to navigate and make changes on your desktop with their own mouse
and keyboard.
What do you want to do?
Share your desktop with
others
To share your desktop with others:
- Open Lync, and, in your Contacts list, double-click a contact’s name.
- When the conversation window opens, click the Share menu.
- If you only have one monitor, click Desktop. Otherwise, choose which monitor(s) to
share.
A bar that reads You are sharing appears at
the top of your screen.
- (Optional) To see how your screen looks to participants, click Preview. To close the preview, click Hide
Stage.
- When you want to stop sharing, on the sharing bar at the top of your
screen, click the Stop Sharing button.
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Share
a program
- In the conversation window, click the Share menu, and then click Program.
- In the Share Programs dialog box, double-click the program
that you want to show.
A bar that reads You are sharing
appears at the top of your screen.
- (Optional) To see how your screen looks to participants, click Preview. To close the preview, click Hide
Stage.
- When you want to stop sharing, on the sharing bar, click the Stop Sharing button.
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Share a PowerPoint presentation
- In the conversation window, click the Share menu, and then
click PowerPoint Presentation.
- In the Share PowerPoint dialog box, double-click the
PowerPoint presentation that you want to share. When the content is prepared
for presentation and uploaded, the other participants will be able to see your
presentation.
Note You can
make annotations on the presentation using the annotation tools at the lower
left of the presentation.
A bar that reads You are sharing appears at
the top of your screen.
- (Optional) To see how your screen looks to participants, click Preview. To close the preview, click Hide
Stage.
- When you want to stop sharing, on the sharing bar, click the Stop Sharing button.
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Create a whiteboard
- In the conversation window, click the Share menu, and then click New
Whiteboard.
- To start writing or drawing on the whiteboard, use the annotation tools at
the lower left of the whiteboard.
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Give control to others
- While sharing your desktop, monitors, or a program, on the sharing bar,
click the Give Control menu.
- Click Automatically accept control
requests, to give control to everybody, or click the name of an
individual under Attendees.
- In the Lync dialog box confirming that you want to give
control, click OK.
- When you want to take back control, press Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar. If Automatically accept control requests is selected, click it to
clear it.
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