Can I change the size of the default chart in PowerPoint 2003?

[Guest]

When I place a default chart in PowerPoint 2003, it is placed at 23% size.
Can I make it so that my charts are placed at 100%?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When I place a default chart in PowerPoint 2003, it is placed at 23% size.
Can I make it so that my charts are placed at 100%?

Not sure I understand ... 23% of what?

Normally when you add a chart by adding a new chart slide and doubleclicking
the chart placeholder, it comes in at the same size as the rectangle that
defines your body text placeholder.

 

[Guest]

When I'm placing a chart on a blank slide, if I click the "insert chart" on
the toolbar, a tiny default chart comes onto the screen (about 1"x1", or 23%
of what the original size would be). I didn't have this problem before. In
the older version of PPT, the chart always appeared at 100% of the actual
size.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When I'm placing a chart on a blank slide, if I click the "insert chart" on
the toolbar, a tiny default chart comes onto the screen (about 1"x1", or 23%
of what the original size would be). I didn't have this problem before. In
the older version of PPT, the chart always appeared at 100% of the actual
size.

Choose File, Page Setup. How big is the slide? If I increase the slide size,
the size of inserted charts shrinks.

Try setting the slide size to On Screen Show then insert a new chart to see if
that changes anything.

Do you get this with all presentations? For example, what if you choose File,
New and create a new blank presentation? How about File, New and choose one of
the designs included with PPT?

 

[Guest]

If I use a blank slide on a new presentation, I don't have a problem...
however we have to use slides from our company template. The page size is
8.5x11.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

If I use a blank slide on a new presentation, I don't have a problem...
however we have to use slides from our company template. The page size is
8.5x11.

That shouldn't be enough of a difference from the default size to matter so much.

When you do View, Master, Slide Master, how large is the body text placeholder?
That's what determines the size of the chart.

 

[Guest]

Our slides are set up so that there is a headline and then a running head
(only enough room for about 2 or 3 lines of text at 16pt). I see now that the
chart is becoming the same size as the text box on the master page. There is
no way to prevent that? Like I said, this didn't happen in the older version
of PPT.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Our slides are set up so that there is a headline and then a running head
(only enough room for about 2 or 3 lines of text at 16pt). I see now that the
chart is becoming the same size as the text box on the master page. There is
no way to prevent that? Like I said, this didn't happen in the older version
of PPT.

PowerPoint has always sized content like charts to match the size of the body text
placeholder. This hasn't changed, but perhaps something else has, like:

- The template

- The way you insert charts. If you choose Insert, Chart on a slide rather than
inserting a new Chart Autolayout slide, the chart comes in at the size you're used to.
Or at least it does that if you do Tools, AutoCorrect Options ..., AutoFormat As You Type
tab, and REMOVE the check next to "Automatic layout for inserted objects"

I'm guessing that this last is the one that's biting your ankles.

 

[Guest]

Yes. That worked. Thank you thank you thank you!!!