Changing screen Resolutions in PowerPoint
Debi
I have a PowerPoint presentation that needs to be 640 x 480 because of a
particular scan converter. I have a second presentations that must be 800 x
600 because of a another scan converter. I have looked just about
everywhere for an option (when setting up a new power point presentation, or
alter an existing one) to change the resolution of the file. I cannot find
anything on this. But there must be a way.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Debi
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Debi Hall
CGI Group, Inc.
4801 East Independence Blvd.
Suite 1000
Charlotte, NC 28212
Phone: 704-531-0305
http://www.cgi-group.com
PK Huntzinger
The screen resolution is set in Windows, not in PowerPoint.
There is an option in the Format Picture dialog to size the picture for
certain resolutions. I don't remember exactly what it says, but you could
play with that and see if it helps.
Kathy
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Debi
the general settings in PowerPoint.
Let me try this. I have a graphic that is 640 x 480 that I want to bring
in at 100%. Why in some cases does 100% not fill up the screen?
While a graphic that is designed at 800 x 600 at 100% in PowerPoint is
bigger than my screen? (Screen being the default white background in the
edit window of PowerPoint)
Is there not a way to set the size of the background image in PowerPoint?
I want to design images in PhotoShop at either resolution and bring them in
to fit with no scale adjustments. Is this not possible?
Thanks, Debi
Brian Reilly, MVP
PPT 97 or 95 the full screen image of a slide show is a few pixels shy
of a true 800x600. We got them to change that in PPT 2K.
Now, why it pastes some images in at less than full size is still a
mystery to me. e.g. Pictures and charts come in 20% smaller than they
should be. Text copied and pasted from Excel comes in at 100%. So it
can make you crazy try to match font sizes in charts to fonts in PPT
unless you set the fonts not to resize, and then resize the charts
properly when pasting into PPT.
As for pictures, in your case I'd scan everything at the 800x600 size
(for full page) and use them in both presentations and rescale them
+20% after pasting.
Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
Steve Rindsberg
> in at 100%. Why in some cases does 100% not fill up the screen?
>
> While a graphic that is designed at 800 x 600 at 100% in PowerPoint is
> bigger than my screen? (Screen being the default white background in the
> edit window of PowerPoint)
The way PowerPoint calculates this stuff is bizarre and varies from version
to version. You can either let it make you crazy or you can come to the
simple and obvious conclusion that YOU are smarter than IT is.
If you know your image is 800 x 600, bring it into PPT and scale it to fill
the slide. If PowerPoint thinks it should be smaller, ignore it. It's
wrong.
Steve Rindsberg
your show, one for each rez, right?
Creating two different versions is tedious. Try this instead:
Let's say your PPT file's in C:\Presentations\MyFile.PPT
Put the 800x600 versions of your images in that same folder, then insert
them into PPT using Insert, Picture, From File and choose the Link option.
When you want to run the pressie in 640x480, copy the 800x600 versions of
the bitmaps into some other folder, copy in the same-named 640x480 versions
to C:\Presentations\MyFile.PPT and open the presentation in PPT. Voila, it
now finds your 640x480 files. The Magic Of Linking.
Caveats 'n Such:
If you move the presentation to some other drive/directory, the links will
break.
You can fix 'em up again using the FixLinks tool in RnR PPTools
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools )
Free.
As Brian's mentioned, the simplest solution may be to go with 800x600 images
and let PPT resize 'em as needed when you kick the video rez down to
640x480.
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Steve Rindsberg, MVP (again!)
PPT FAQ & Slide imaging - http://www.rdpslides.com
RnR PPTools - http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools
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Debi <De...@cgi-group.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, I understand setting the resolution in Windows, I'm confused about
> the general settings in PowerPoint.
>
> Let me try this. I have a graphic that is 640 x 480 that I want to bring
> in at 100%. Why in some cases does 100% not fill up the screen?
>
> While a graphic that is designed at 800 x 600 at 100% in PowerPoint is
> bigger than my screen? (Screen being the default white background in the
> edit window of PowerPoint)
>
Ro
sure the computer/laptop being used is also done this way.
Is that what you are asking?
Debi wrote:
>
>
> First, I apologize if this posted twice.
>
>
> I have a PowerPoint presentation that needs to be 640 x 480 because of a
> particular scan converter. I have a second presentations that must be
800 x
> 600 because of a another scan converter. I have looked just about
> everywhere for an option (when setting up a new power point
presentation, or
> alter an existing one) to change the resolution of the file. I cannot
find
> anything on this. But there must be a way.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Debi
>
> --
> Debi Hall
>
> CGI Group, Inc.
> 4801 East Independence Blvd.
> Suite 1000
> Charlotte, NC 28212
> Phone: 704-531-0305
> http://www.cgi-group.com
>
>
>
>
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Hoop Somuah
I know in powerPoint 97, if you grabed slides at a resolution of 960x720
they would fill up the slide but it doesn't work that way in PPT2k...
Steve Rindsberg
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> I hae this same problem with power point...
>
> I know in powerPoint 97, if you grabed slides at a resolution of 960x720
> they would fill up the slide but it doesn't work that way in PPT2k...
>
97 uses your Windows display rez (96 or 120 dpi usually) as the basis for
sizing images. 960 / 96 dpi gives you a 10" image give or take, so this
makes sense. I know PPT2000 uses 72dpi instead of 96/120 for some things,
so it wouldn't surprise me if it uses 72dpi for this instead. Try popping
in an image that's 720 pixels wide and see what happens.