Is there a way to display multiple slides

[Eric]

I'd like to be able to display multiple slides on a screen. The Slide Sorter
permits displaying a lot of slides, but not a few. When I expand the zoom to
100% it displays more slides. But there seems to be no way to expland the
zoom to a number greater than 100%.

Is there any display mode that shows 4, 6, or 8 slides on a screen?

Thanks.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Eric

You may want to look at this
http://www.officelabs.com/projects/pptPlex/Pages/default.aspx

Another approach would be to save the slides as image files then insert as
many as you want on each slide (I sometimes do this for summary slides but
only when using whole screen images as slides).

My question would be, why do you want to and would the audience be able to
see clearly/understand 8 slides on a screen?

Lucy

 

[Eric]

You've asked why someone someone would want to do this.

I recently took a class from an instructor who had everything on PowerPoint.
But he had a frustrating style in which he used far more slides than he
needed to. It was a finance/mathematics class, and he would lay things out so
that, for example, one slide would say "This leads to the following
conclusion:" and the conclusion would appear on the next slide. Or he would
have a slide reading "X's Theorem:" followed by the formula, with the "where
X = ...., Y = .... etc" on the next slide. It was not a matter of lack of
space, but just a habit of his to spread things out.

The problem was that the ideas were unnecessarily fragmented. A single idea
or concept would span a number of slides, but only one slide was visible on
screen at once, which made it unnecessarily difficult to grasp the concept.
Obviously he could fix the problem by reformatting the whole PowerPoints. But
short of that, he coudld partly remedy the problem by displaying multiple
slides at once. Similarly, when I study using his slides, I'd like to be able
to a full idea, rather than a single small part of one concept.

That's the idea.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Eric

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Ahhh I see. That does sound frustrating. Perhaps you could extract all the
text & study from that?
Export Text to a text file, extract text from PowerPoint (Mac or PC)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00274.htm

Lucy

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www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au

 

[John Wilson]

Hi Eric

The correct answer is obviously sort out the presentation!

As you have discovered you cannot have a view > 100% in side sorter BUT if
you (temporarily) change the width & height settings in page set up to e.g.
1.5 times their original setting .....
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