I'm using Powerpoint 2003 and running Windows XP. I have about 1500 slides
that were created in portrait that I want to rotate 90 degrees, so that it's
sideways when reading it. The purpose is that this will run on 16x9 plasma
screens that will be mounted vertically.

Have a peek in "page set up" make sure you have "on screen show selected"
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Hope that helps


"krystieobrien" wrote:

> I'm using Powerpoint 2003 and running Windows XP. I have about 1500 slides
> that were created in portrait that I want to rotate 90 degrees, so that it's
> sideways when reading it. The purpose is that this will run on 16x9 plasma
> screens that will be mounted vertically.

In article <4A2B8E35-E8CE-4D37-87BB-(E-Mail Removed)>, Krystieobrien
wrote:
> I'm using Powerpoint 2003 and running Windows XP. I have about 1500 slides
> that were created in portrait that I want to rotate 90 degrees, so that it's
> sideways when reading it. The purpose is that this will run on 16x9 plasma
> screens that will be mounted vertically.
>

If animation isn't an issue, your best bet might be to:

- Export all the slides as bitmaps, PNG or JPG, whichever works best for you.
- Create a new presentation in the correct proportions but in landscape mode
- Import the bitmaps, one per slide, and fill screen with them

While your version of PPT may allow you to rotate the bitmaps on the slide,
it'll probably be more efficient to use a utility program to batch-rotate them
ahead of time. Let the computer do the grunt-work as much as possible.


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