landscape and portrait views in a powerpoint presentation

[Sharon Clements]

My employer is computer illiterate. Unfortunately he must
start using powerpoint for his presentations at other
universities, they will not allow him to use a slide
projector anymore, it's too prehistoric. I am currently
scanning 35mm slides and inserting them into powerpoint
presentations, but these slides have both landscape and
portrait views in one presentation. Is there any way to
create one powerpoint presentation that includes both
landscape and portrait views without having to make links
to a separate file?

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

We were just talking about such people yesterday. To mix portrait and
landscape:

http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00042.htm

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[Steve Rindsberg]

My employer is computer illiterate. Unfortunately he must

start using powerpoint for his presentations at other
universities, they will not allow him to use a slide
projector anymore, it's too prehistoric. I am currently
scanning 35mm slides and inserting them into powerpoint
presentations, but these slides have both landscape and
portrait views in one presentation. Is there any way to
create one powerpoint presentation that includes both
landscape and portrait views without having to make links
to a separate file?

You can always set up your presentation's page size as square, but in the
end, it all comes down to this:

If you use a data projector, you're going to be projecting a 4 x 3
proportioned landscape image, so you may as well stick with the standard PPT
screen show size. Unless you turn the projector on its side, ain't nothing
you can do about it. <g>

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Oops. I didn't read the bit about links to another file (well, I did but
it

never clicked). Steve's right... you're sunk.

I wouldn't put it exactly that way.

I'd put it more like this:

Traditional 35mm slides: If you have a 4 x 3 foot screen and fill it left
to right with a landscape slide, then switch to a portrait oriented slide,
the image runs off top and bottom. If you need to mix orientations, you
have to make the portait image fit and live with the fact that the landscape
images will now be smaller.

Brave New World, Data Projector: Instead of changing the size of the image
on the screen, you fill screen with the 4 x 3 image of the monitor. Now you
drop your portrait images in so they fill top to bottom (same size as ever)
but your landscape images fill left to right.

The portrait images can still only be as high as the screen is high.