How to create a white page border surrounding the coloured backgro

[Guest]

I am using powerpoint 2000. I am creating an A0 poster. I want to have a
coloured background but with a small white border at the edge of the page.
The people who are printing the poster for me appear to have a printer that
prints to the edges of the page so I need to create this myself. I don't seem
to be getting anyweher and the only idea I have at the moment is to use the
draw toolbar and draw four thin white boxes along each side of the page - is
there a quicker and easier method than this?

Many thanks for all help in advance.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am using powerpoint 2000. I am creating an A0 poster. I want to have a
coloured background but with a small white border at the edge of the page.
The people who are printing the poster for me appear to have a printer that
prints to the edges of the page so I need to create this myself. I don't seem
to be getting anyweher and the only idea I have at the moment is to use the
draw toolbar and draw four thin white boxes along each side of the page - is
there a quicker and easier method than this?

A lot will depend on the printer, I'd guess.

If you can specify the page size you want (minus the desired border width * 2)
then print with the "Fit to page" option turned off, then it may work.

Or if you can specify enlargement/reduction percentages in their printer driver,
that should do it as well. Specify the percentage needed to enlarge the slide
to sheet-size less your desired margins.

This presumes that the printer will center the output on the chosen sheet size.

That said, if the setup is currently giving you a full slide on a full sheet
with no cropping or other nonsense, I suspect the simplest thing will be to do
what you've already suggested. Thin rectangles.

 

[Guest]

Steve, thanks for all your help, I shall give it a go, and if all else fails,
I'll be going with the thin rectangles.

Thanks again, Sarah