Geometric size of bitmap pasted into PowerPoint 2003

[Guest]

Hello,
I just updated to PowerPoint 2003. When I used to paste a bitmap of a
screen capture into previous versions of PowerPoint, the picture would
automatically be sized in proportion to the slide. With the 2003 version the
picture covers the slide, so I have to format the size and position of each
picture. This gets very tedious. Is there an option somewhere that governs
how a screen capture gets pasted into PP 2003?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hello,
I just updated to PowerPoint 2003. When I used to paste a bitmap of a
screen capture into previous versions of PowerPoint, the picture would
automatically be sized in proportion to the slide. With the 2003 version the
picture covers the slide, so I have to format the size and position of each
picture. This gets very tedious. Is there an option somewhere that governs
how a screen capture gets pasted into PP 2003?

I'm guessing that the pasted image was sized to the proportions of the body text
placeholder, not the slide. That fits a known habit of PPT2002 that was so
roundly despised by most people that MS has removed it in 2003. The crowd
cheered.

Unfortunately, it was a USEFUL feature for some people.

The free PPTools Starter set at http://starterset.pptools.com includes a tool
that lets you pick up and memorize the position and size of any shape or of the
slide itself; there's another tool that lets you automatically fit the currently
selected shape (ie, your newly imported picture) TO the memorized size position.

In other words, it does more or less the same thing as PPT used to, but it's
more flexible. It *does* require one add'l click, but it beats having to size
the things manually.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Steve! I downloaded PPTools StarterSet but am having difficulty.
Can you walk me through how to automatically fit a screen capture onto a
slide?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you, Steve! I downloaded PPTools StarterSet but am having difficulty.
Can you walk me through how to automatically fit a screen capture onto a
slide?

Happy to.

Click off the slide once so that nothing is selected.

Click the "Memorize an object's position" button (Fifth from the left, kind of a
grid with a character in the middle of it)

Click the "i" button next to it
Put a check next Resize
Put a check next to Don't Distort
Click OK

Now import an image and click the Hammer button (sixth from the left)

That will make your image as big as possible on the slide *without* distorting
its proportions. If you want to make it fill the slide regardless of
distortion, remove the check next to "Don't Distort" above.

 

[Guest]

Thanks again, it worked.