Black Frame Around Slides when Playing

Hi!
I recently became a Mac user (ok, in the last year) and love it. I use keypoint a lot because I'm a teacher, however I've been a little disappointed that I always have to export my presentations and use a PC when I want to project/play my slides for my classes because whenever I start to play my slides there is a thick, black frame around each slide (only when it's playing, when I'm creating my slides, there's no "frame" of any sort). If I try playing a ppt show, the same black frame pops up. It's really frustrating because I want to be able to use my Macbook when presenting.
How can I make this stop? When I play my slides I want them to take up the whole screen, not be surrounded by black!
SAm

If you're using 1024x768 or 800x600, you're going to get bars on the left an right because those are "normal" resolutions and your monitor is "widescreen". You'd have to use one of the "widescreen" resolution presentation sizes to get rid of those.

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