How do I rotate a slideshow 90 degrees for use on a kiosk

[Guest]

I have a PPT slideshow and a monitor that is used as an electronic bulletin
board. The monitor is just a normal HDTV type monitor but is mounted sideways
(it is taller that it is wide).

Thus, for proper usage of this kiosk type of display, I want to show my
powerpoint presentation rotated 90 degrees. I checked the monitor menu, and
my display drivers for help, but found nothing that worked.

Any help is greately appriciated.

Dennis

 

[Michael Koerner]

Wouldn't creating your presentation in the portrait layout work for you?

 

[Guest]

Michael,

Portrait vs. Landscape determines the width of the slideshow. It does not
affect the orientation. So no, portrait will not help me.

Again, what I am searching for is a method to rotate my slideshow by 90
degrees to allow it to display on a device that has been physically rotated
(mounted on a wall) by 90 degrees.

Dennis

 

[Michael Koerner]

Unfortunately, not from within PowerPoint

 

[Austin Myers]

My suggestion is to hook the monitor to the dev machine and build the
presentation as desired from the beginning. If this is not practical, set
the slide size to match the monitor and create the presentation "sideways"
(rotating text, images etc.).

No, PowerPoint doesn't have the ability to control the video device drivers
or monitor.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Again, what I am searching for is a method to rotate my slideshow by 90
degrees to allow it to display on a device that has been physically rotated
(mounted on a wall) by 90 degrees.

Would a presentation made of static images work?

What if you exported your slides as images, brought them back into a new
presentation with the needed size/orientation and rotated each of the images 90
degrees?

 

[Guest]

"Set the slide size to match the monitor"... that is what I cannot do. The
monitor is 1024 by 1280 and my display drivers all have greater width than
height. So the more I think about it, I believe I asked my question in the
wrong forum.

I have a powerpoint problem but the solution is probably a hardware device
driver type of solution. I will look around for some other forum for this
question... any recommendations are welcome.

Thanks for your help

Dennis