Once your MessagePoint product is installed you can click Start > Control Panel > Display. On there you click the Screen Saver tab and make sure that MessagePoint Pro is selected as the default screen saver.

Click Settings and then Browse to select the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation on your local system. You can also activate the 'Detect updates on the presentation' and specify the refresh rate. As a designer or content provider, you can update the content of a screen saver presentation at any time. All MessagePoint Professional Edition users will scan for updates on the subscribed presentation. Whenever an update is detected, MessagePoint will copy the presentation locally on its computer and restart the screen saver presentation in order to display the latest and updated information.

Also you can specify if the running screen saver should be ended on mouse movements and keyboard actions. Typically a screen saver is ended when the mouse is moved or when a key is hit on the keyboard. But sometimes it is interesting to turn off this feature if your screen saver presentation contains hyperlinks to external documents or web sites that you want a user to click on.

You can also install DataPoint Standard Edition next to your MessagePoint Profession Edition system. With DataPoint you can link your presentation to external data sources like Excel worksheets and databases. Big advantage with data connected presentations is that you don't have to update the content of the presentation anymore as this is already done at your data source.

For larger implementations and dynamic presentations we recommend to use the MessagePoint Enterprise Edition which has a DataPoint runtime client included.