Aspect Ratio

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In a nutshell, you don't. PPT runs at whatever the current screen
resolution is. (Unless you have told it not to.) Does your video card have
a 16:9 output format? Many of them simply clip the top and bottom of the
image to make it appear they do.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
 
How do I change the aspect ratio of my pps and ppt files from 4:3 to 16:9?
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To make it fill a widescreen display totally, for instance?
You'd go to File, Page Setup and change the slide size to something
proportional to 16:9

Problem is, that's liable to distort your graphics.

This has some ideas to help with that:

Make screenshow fill a wide screen display
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00566.htm
 

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