Is it possible to use horizontal and vertical slides in the same presentation?
Eran Einav
Please help
Is it possible to use horizontal and vertical slides in the same
presentation?
Eiran
PTT, Inc.
go. Of course it is relatively easy to link back and forth between various
portrait and landscape files with little or no problem. (at least until
Gates figures out that this is something we want!!!!!)
Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
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Steve Rindsberg
rather than something to be printed.
So help me understand something that's mystified me ever since people first
started complaining about the inability of PPT to include both portrait and
landscape slides in the same presentation (and believe me, that's a LONG
time):
Given: the screen's always landscape
Given: a portrait image that fills the slide top to bottom on a portrait
mode slide
Given: a portrait image that fills the slide top to bottom on a landscape
mode slide
Same difference, no? The portrait content appears at the same size on
screen no matter whether the presentation is landscape or portrait. As far
as I can see, the only diff is that with portrait content/portrait slides,
you get black on either side of the slide in screen show mode. Same content
on a landscape slide gives you the PPT background filling the entire screen
rather than black at either side. Personally, I'd prefer the latter, but if
I wanted black sides, popping in a couple black rectangles'd do the trick.
NBD.
So what's the deal here? Why's this a Big Thing?
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PK Huntzinger
> So what's the deal here? Why's this a Big Thing?
Hey, no fair! who says you have to go and prove that it's not a major
crisis? I actually did something similar last year, but that was before
I worried about whether I could or couldn't. (my motto: when in doubt,
try it out <g>). I'm putting this down on my
things-to-check-out-for-myself list.
Kathy
PTT, Inc.
Sorry, didn't mean to get you so riled up! My problem with it is that I use
my drawings as my backgrounds of the slide. I have CAD-type flow diagrams,
etc. that I use in a lot of my presentations. That way I can animate
flowpaths, etc on the slide without clicking on the drawing while I am
designing my presentation. When I put a portrait drawing on the background
of the landscape slide, well, you know the rest.
I am still a strong advocate of Microsoft products, but I get spoiled by
being able to create section breaks in Word to do the same thing, but can't
do it in PowerPoint.
Still a Team Player
Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Steve Rindsberg wrote in message ...
>Since you mention linking, let's assume that this is a screen presentation
>rather than something to be printed.
>So help me understand something that's mystified me ever since people first
>started complaining about the inability of PPT to include both portrait and
>landscape slides in the same presentation (and believe me, that's a LONG
>time):
>
>Given: the screen's always landscape
>Given: a portrait image that fills the slide top to bottom on a portrait
>mode slide
>Given: a portrait image that fills the slide top to bottom on a landscape
>mode slide
>
>Same difference, no? The portrait content appears at the same size on
>screen no matter whether the presentation is landscape or portrait. As far
>as I can see, the only diff is that with portrait content/portrait slides,
>you get black on either side of the slide in screen show mode. Same
content
>on a landscape slide gives you the PPT background filling the entire screen
>rather than black at either side. Personally, I'd prefer the latter, but
if
>I wanted black sides, popping in a couple black rectangles'd do the trick.
>NBD.
>
>So what's the deal here? Why's this a Big Thing?
Steve Rindsberg
> crisis?
Sometimes I'm willing to go running around in circles 'cause the chicken sez
the sky is falling. Other times, I want to check it out for myself. THEN
panic.
Steve Rindsberg
Moi? Riled? Not a bit of it. Hint: Yr Hmbl Srvnt seems more formal in
the AM before the coffee kicks in. He loosens up through the day. By
evening, he's so laid back and casual as to be almost incomprehensible. <g>
>My problem with it is that I use
> my drawings as my backgrounds of the slide. I have CAD-type flow
diagrams,
> etc. that I use in a lot of my presentations. That way I can animate
> flowpaths, etc on the slide without clicking on the drawing while I am
> designing my presentation. When I put a portrait drawing on the
background
> of the landscape slide, well, you know the rest.
Well ... no, actually I don't follow you here. What's the problem?
PTT, Inc.
landscape slide. Get's real skewed!!! A lot of my intricate drawings are
not inserted as a picture, but inserted as the slide background. When they
swap between a landscape drawing and a portrait one I have to link to
another file. Actually I set up two files with landscape and portrait and
insert all of my drawings where they belong. Then I order them as necessary
by going back and forth based on the desired order of showing them.
Just a "little" of a pain, but not too tough for a Texan! HA!
I'll try to save my "tougher" questions or sarcastic remarks for the
evening!
Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Steve Rindsberg wrote in message ...
Steve Rindsberg
> landscape slide. Get's real skewed!!!
Ah. No wonder I couldn't follow you, podner ... I've never seen this
happen. Live and learn.
>A lot of my intricate drawings are
> not inserted as a picture, but inserted as the slide background.
You are aware, are you not, that this particular feature of PPT is Evil
Incarnate? (Well, at least according to a couple of the reg'lars around
here.) ;-) So what happens if you insert them as pictures instead?
> Just a "little" of a pain, but not too tough for a Texan! HA!
What part of Texas (asks the Houston boy)?
PTT, Inc.
We're from Granbury (about 30 minutes southwest of Dallas/Ft. Worth
metroplex).
If I insert the drawing as a picture, I get the same result as creating a
new file as you said. The slight difference in backgrounds aren't a problem
with me.
I don't know what the buzz is about using the Format Background (using a
Picture) feature? I have never had a problem with it!
It is just that I need to do it when I decide to place the portrait drawing
on the background of a slide. I do this a lot with one-line drawings of
electrical schematics, etc. because it is so much easier to animate lines on
top of the drawing when I don't have to worry about clicking on the drawing
and moving it.
So, with this all said, if you have any push with "the man", I certainly
would appreciate it if this feature could be added! HA!
Take care. BTW - how does it feel to be 50? My wife's is coming up and I
would like to enlighten her!!
Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Steve Rindsberg wrote in message ...
Steve Rindsberg
> Picture) feature? I have never had a problem with it!
Mostly a matter of control ... you don't have much over sizing and such that
way.
> It is just that I need to do it when I decide to place the portrait
drawing
> on the background of a slide. I do this a lot with one-line drawings of
> electrical schematics, etc. because it is so much easier to animate lines
on
> top of the drawing when I don't have to worry about clicking on the
drawing
> and moving it.
Hm. You could always place the picture temporarily on the master, then copy
it to the real slide once everything's done, then move onto the next
picture.
> So, with this all said, if you have any push with "the man", I certainly
> would appreciate it if this feature could be added! HA!
I don't, not much more than you, but if enough people write
msw...@microsoft.com asking for a feature, they do listen.
> Take care. BTW - how does it feel to be 50? My wife's is coming up and I
> would like to enlighten her!!
Feels ok to me. OTOH, it's not much fun to spring that on your wife ...
better try "creaky, crotchety, cantankerous and generally not worth the
bullet it'd take to put me out of my misery." That ought to get her cranked
up. Do wear your running shoes when you try this out on her. We'd hate to
lose another one.