When I capture the screen and paste it to a slide, the edges are cut off
during the slideshow. I have fiddled with the page setup and so forth until
I'm blue in the face and have made no progress. The only way I can get it to
look right is to manually resize EVERY picture. Some of my presentations
have nearly 100 slides. Not terribly convenient. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
The edges are cut off because the image is being pasted in slightly larger than
the slide size; during a slide show, PPT displays only what fits on the slide;
anything past the slide edge will be cropped off.
By experimenting, you can probably arrive at an appropriate page setup size such
that when you paste in an image, it'll fill the screen and no more, but this
will only work if you set the page size first, then paste images.
Try dividing your screen size (in pixels) by 96 and using that for the page
setup size. You may need to use a different number (80 or 72 are good bets)
depending on your version of PPT.
Or a simpler alternative: get our free PPTools Starter Set
http://starterset.pptools.com
It includes a tool that lets you memorize the size and position of any shape
with one click then auto-size/position any other shape to match with another
click. If nothing's selected when you memorize, it uses the slide's size.
In other words, you'd click once to memorize the slide's size; after that,
select an image, click the hammer button, repeat until done.
