It is indeed a good practice to enable the power saving features in-built in the computers. However sometimes these very same features can be a real pain. The computer could go into power saving mode right in the midst of a presentation. PowerPoint 2000 automatically prevents it however here is how you tackle it in PowerPoint 97.

• Click on Start | Control Panel | Power Options.

• In the Power Option properties window, click on the Power Schemes Tab

• Set the Turn off Monitor/ Turn off Hard Disks option when on Power (and also Battery for laptop users) to Never.

• Now click on the Save as... button and assign a name to this power scheme... Let us call it 'Presentation' and then click on OK.

• That's it congrats! Now whenever you are about to give a presentation and need to have the monitor always on; click on Start | Control Panel | Power Options and select our newly created 'Presentation' power scheme. And when thru with the presentation you can revert back to one of the other power saving modes.