I want to be able to change the size/aspect ratio of a slide/background (from
4:3 to 16:9 for example) without the pictures getting stretched. I work at a
church and we receive PowerPoint presentations in the standard 4:3 aspect
ratio but our projectors are more of a widescreen format. We have been just
going into the "Design" tab, clicking the "Page Setup" button and changing
the size to 16:9 to "convert" an entire presentation. This works fine for
text for the most part (not a big deal if that gets stretched out) but for
pictures and graphics it looks terrible. Does anyone know how to do this to
get the desired results?

Oh, I am on Office 2007. Thanks.

Mike;

You may want to look here for your solution.
Make screenshow fill a wide screen display
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00566.htm


--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"GCC - Mike" <GCC - (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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I want to be able to change the size/aspect ratio of a slide/background
(from
4:3 to 16:9 for example) without the pictures getting stretched. I work at
a
church and we receive PowerPoint presentations in the standard 4:3 aspect
ratio but our projectors are more of a widescreen format. We have been just
going into the "Design" tab, clicking the "Page Setup" button and changing
the size to 16:9 to "convert" an entire presentation. This works fine for
text for the most part (not a big deal if that gets stretched out) but for
pictures and graphics it looks terrible. Does anyone know how to do this to
get the desired results?

Oh, I am on Office 2007. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll definitely check them out. I haven't done
anything with VBA, but hopefully it'll work out.

Any other suggestions?

"Michael Koerner" wrote:

> Mike;
>
> You may want to look here for your solution.
> Make screenshow fill a wide screen display
> http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00566.htm
>
>
> --
> Michael Koerner
> MS MVP - PowerPoint
>
>
> "GCC - Mike" <GCC - (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news49E8B53-8495-4714-B4C1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I want to be able to change the size/aspect ratio of a slide/background
> (from
> 4:3 to 16:9 for example) without the pictures getting stretched. I work at
> a
> church and we receive PowerPoint presentations in the standard 4:3 aspect
> ratio but our projectors are more of a widescreen format. We have been just
> going into the "Design" tab, clicking the "Page Setup" button and changing
> the size to 16:9 to "convert" an entire presentation. This works fine for
> text for the most part (not a big deal if that gets stretched out) but for
> pictures and graphics it looks terrible. Does anyone know how to do this to
> get the desired results?
>
> Oh, I am on Office 2007. Thanks.
>
>
>