zoom in/zoom out feature

[Guest]

How can I zoom in/zoom out in powerpoint's slideshow mode if I have a
particular detail of a slide that I want to highlight?

 

[Luc]

Shannon,
Have a look here for a free add-in. Maybe it will help you achieve what you
are after:
http://officeone.mvps.org/zoom/zoom.html

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Luk. This sounds promising, but when I try to utilize it in a ppt
presentation using "tools", "add-in," it gives me the following message:
PowerPoint couldn't load the add-in Zoom." Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

No. I got it. Thanks. This works similarly to a feature in Visio. It's a
bit cumbersome, but this will help. Thanks!

 

[Guest]

With all due respect to the OfficeOne Zoom add-in, that's not it at all !!

What's needed and obvious, I think, is the simply ability, during a
PowerPoint presentation, to put the cursor arrow over any part of a graphic
or map and click (probably on the scroll wheel) and have the screen zoom in
on that area - then the scroll wheel would control zooming in or out, and
another click would return the view to normal.

I don't get it:

***I went to an Adobe presentation done with a MAC and this kind of zooming
was used with great effect thruout. Hundreds present.

***I saw a West Point officer's presentation on a PC and he did it - but I
believe thru some complex motion paths / animation / effects. Every search
I've done that showed how to create even a klutzy zoom was bafflingly
complicated.

***I downloaded the PowerPoint 2007 beta thinking an easy zoom-in / zoom-out
solution would certainly be there. Can't find it!

The MAC does it. Photodex's CompupicPro does it in Windows. The Army can
do it.

Doesn't that get anyone's juices at Microsoft flowing?