Different page setups within same presentation?

[Kerri]

In Microsoft Word, you are able to change the direction of
your page within the same document by placing a section
break before and after the section you want to change.
So, therefore, you could have one page running in
portrait, the next in horizontal and then the following in
portrait.

Can you do this in Power Point so that one slide runs
horizontally and then the next runs vertically?

If so, how?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[Sonia]

Is this for printing purposes that you want to do it? I ask because Word is
a document application designed for printing on paper and paper can easily
be turned to view in portrait or landscape. PowerPoint on the other hand is
designed for display on monitors and screens, neither of which has a
"portrait" vs. "landscape" orientation.
--

Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003

 

[Kerri]

Hey, thanks for your quick response!

I realize that PowerPoint is designed for display. And
no, this isn't for printing. When you go to file/page
setup, you may choose which orientation you would like for
your slides and it lists "portrait" and "landscape" in
PP2000.

I have a document within my PP presentation that I'd like
to display. It doesn't fit on a horizontal slide. It
would, however, fit on a vertical slide, but I don't want
the whole presentation to have to use vertical slides.

Am I stuck with all vertical slides or all horizontal
slides?

 

[Sonia]

Look at it this way. A landscape slide would be 1024 X 768 pixels on the
average display (4:3 aspect ratio). A portrait slide would be 567 X 768
pixels (3:4 aspect ratio). In either case you only have 768 pixels for the
length of the "page". Try it in both orientations. Copy a full page of
text from Word and then do a Paste Special > Microsoft Word Document Object
and take a look in Slide Show mode. The only difference is that in the
first example you have big wide black borders on each side of the text.