Inserting Different Page Setups

[Guest]

I’ve got hundreds of slides done in 35mm format that I need to import into an
On-screen show layout.

Inserting Slides from File doesn’t appear to meet my needs since it distorts
the graphics. Keep Source Formatting also does not seem to help since I want
the Master Slides to be in the On-screen proportions.

One idea was to proportionally reduce the 35mm slides (11.25x7.5in) 88% to
(9.9x6.6in), but that would entail copying, pasting and then manually redoing
the Title and various other tweaks…very tedious.

Any suggestions on how this may be best accomplished – including potential
VBA code – would be most welcomed.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

There is VBA code at:

Batch Insert a folder full of pictures, one per slide
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00352.htm

I don't think it is set up to do exactly what you want (if you are trying
to include a title as well), but there is some code there that could be
modified that makes the picture as big as possible to fit on the screen.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Doing this in VBA would be quite an undertaking and whether or not it was
successful would depend a great deal on how the presentations are structured.

But have a look here:

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

Scroll down to the part about what to do if your presentation's already done and
you need to reformat it; that's pretty much the same problem as you're looking
at.

 

[Guest]

Thanks all. The referrals touch on some of the issues. I guess that a major
overhaul of one format to another (including keeping the object’s
proportions) just isn’t something that can be readily automated.