Automatic Margins in Powerpoint

[Guest]

How on earth do u get rid of the margins powerpoint puts onto documents? They dont show on the screen but when i print there always there! Im using Powerpoint 2000

 

[Bill Foley]

If you click "File", "Page Setup", you will see that the slide size is 7.5 x
10 (which gives you an automatic 0.5 inch margin on each side). However,
your printer can not get much (if any) closer to the margin so if you try to
change the setup to 8.5 x 11 you will lose the edges that your printer can
not get to. Just a thought!

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How on earth do u get rid of the margins powerpoint puts onto documents?

They dont show on the screen but when i print there always there! Im using
Powerpoint 2000

 

[Guest]

When you use File/Print, you can select Scale to Fit Paper. That will help.

But printers require *some* margin so the rollers can grab the paper. For some ideas, see http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00097.htm

 

[Guest]

Thanks for yr reply, i guess this means there is no way of getting rid of this 0.5 inch margin

 

[Bill Foley]

What printing companies do is set the size of the paper to a higher size,
print the documents, then cut off the excess. However, that is way too much
work for the average Joe! You can try setting the size slightly higher to
see how much your specific printer can handle. But, there will always be
some "white" margin area. Of course, you could buy a high-dollar color
laserjet printer that can get as close as 0.3 or maybe 0.2 inches from the
margin, then you can change the slide size to something like "7.9 x 10.4" or
"8.1 x 10.6".

Make sense?

 

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