Spotlight yourself or other presenters

Spotlight lets you share your view of a slide deck on the canvas or while presenting. This allows others to follow your progress through a presentation or find where you’re working on the deck in the editor. Spotlight does not share your actions in the toolbar, sidebars, or anything outside of the canvas.
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Combine spotlight with other features like audio and cursor chat to facilitate team collaboration without relying on an external meeting tool.

Use spotlight on the canvas

Spotlight yourself

1. Hover over your avatar in the right sidebar and click to open the Multiplayer tools dropdown menu.
2. Click Spotlight me.

Everyone currently viewing the slide deck in the editor will be notified that you’d like them to follow you. They’ll have a few seconds to click Not now before automatically being shown your view of the deck. Once you’re in the spotlight, you’ll see how many people are following you and your avatar in the right sidebar will have a dashed border.

To stop a spotlight, click Stop at the top of the canvas.

Follow another user

You can share the spotlight and follow other users on the canvas.

1. Find the person’s avatar in the right sidebar.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Click on the user’s avatar in the menu bar to automatically follow them.
   • Hover over the user’s avatar and click Ask to spotlight to send them a spotlight request. The user is notified that you would like them to spotlight themselves and can accept or reject the request.

Figma Slides will display a border around your canvas. A message displays at the top of the screen to show who you are following. Once you follow someone, you will see their actions and cursor as they move through the deck.

To stop following the user, click Stop following following at the top of your canvas.

Use spotlight in presenter view

Spotlight yourself

You can use spotlight while in presenter view to control the flow of the presentation and keep everyone on the same slide.

1. Open the deck in presenter view.
2. Hover over your avatar at the top of the screen and click to open the Multiplayer tools dropdown menu.
3. Click Spotlight me.

Everyone who opened the slide deck using the presentation link will be notified that you’d like them to follow you. They’ll have a few seconds to click Not now before automatically being shown your view of the file. Once you’re in the spotlight, you’ll see how many people are following you and your avatar in the toolbar will have a dashed border.

Spotlight another user

When presenting with a group, other people can take the spotlight when it’s their turn to speak so no one ever has to say “Next slide” again.

1. Find the person’s avatar at the top of the screen.
2. Do one of the following:
   • Click on the user’s avatar in the menu bar to automatically follow them.
   • Hover over the user’s avatar and click Ask to spotlight to send them a spotlight request. The user is notified that you would like them to spotlight themselves and can accept or reject the request.

Once another presenter takes the spotlight, they’ll be able to progress through the slide deck and the rest of the audience will see their current slide.