How do I Flip a Document?

[Mike]

Here's the obstacle:

We are scanning documents into Microsoft Powerpoint 2000.
Our documents are horizontal and are horizontally read as
are the slides in Powerpoint. When scanned in they scan
in vertically. So basically, take a horizontally read
document and flip it on it's side so it's vertical.
That's what's happening in Powerpoint. I can see that
there is a Rotate icon, but it is not active. I created a
text box to copy and paste the text of the scanned
document in which then would reactivate the rotate icon
and, thus, solve our problem. This was unsuccessful.
So what do I need to do to flip my document once it's
scanned into Powerpoint? Keep in mind...there is no way
to flip it in the physical scanner and I have found no way
to rotate the object in the scanning program before
scanning into Powerpoint. Please help.

Mike

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

You'd want to scan the documents using the scanning software and save them
to a file rather than scanning directly into PPT.
Then you could use pretty much any image editing program to rotate and
resave them. Or scan them directly into the image editing program, then
rotate and save them.
Then use Insert, Picture, From File to bring them into PPT.
Or use one of the suggestions here to bring bunches of them in
automatically:

BATCH IMPORT images into PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00050.htm

If you don't have an image editing app, you might try Paintshop Pro from
www.jasc.com
Excellent, a kind of poor-person's Photoshop.

Or if you choose to scan to your scanner software and save to file,
IrfanView ( www.irfanview.com ) will batch rotate them and even downsample
them to appropriate size for PPT for you. Free.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Hey Mike,

What's the end product/presentation going to be used for?

Printing or On-screen?

Cheers
TAJ