Mirror Image of Powerpoint Slide

[Sammye]

I have a slide that was created by a relative. We want
to use it to create a T-shirt screen. However, because
there is lettering, we need to create a "mirror image" of
the entire slide.

Does anyone know if there's a way to flip the entire
slide?

I'd really appreciate your thoughts on this and thank you
in advance. You can email me directly if you'd like.

Sammye

 

[Sonia]

Can you select the object or objects that you want and then flip them
horizontally, or is the text in a textbox? If so, you could save the slide
as an image and then either open it in an image editor (Photoshop, Paint
Shop Pro, etc.) and flip it horizontally. Or you could re-insert the image
in PowerPoint and flip it. I think the quality would not be as good by
using PowerPoint, but I haven't tested it.

 

[Ute Simon]

I have a slide that was created by a relative. We want
to use it to create a T-shirt screen. However, because
there is lettering, we need to create a "mirror image" of
the entire slide.

Does anyone know if there's a way to flip the entire
slide?

The easiest way might be without PowerPoint: Some newer inkjet printers can
flip the pages, most color photocopiers can, too.

If you use PPT 2002 or 2003 I'd suggest the following: Group all objects on
your slide. Use the Flip option of the Drawing toolbar to flip the whole
group.

If there's text in you slide, you'll need one more step: Cut out the whole
group out with Ctrl+X, re-insert it using "Edit | Paste Special" choosing
Windows Meta File (WMF) format. This will convert your text to graphics
which can be easily flipped using the above method. And you will not lose
quality (which would be the case when saving to a bitmap file).

If your slide has anything in the background, you might want to open the
master and flip those objects separately.

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Sammye]

Thank you for your response, Sonia.

The items to be "flipped" are 4 boxes surrounding a
picture that contain text. I did try the horizontal
flip -- for some reason it would not work -- vertical
works just fine but I don't need the text upside down).

I also received another response that sounds promising
but I will try both methods.

Sammye

 

[Sammye]

Thank you very much for your reply, Ute.

Your method sounds a bit easier. I should have mentioned
that the slide in question has 4 boxes surrounding a
picture. These boxes contain text -- which is what we're
most concerned with "flipping". I think your "extra
step" will solve the problem -- we are not worried about
flipping the picture.

Sammye

 

[Sammye]

Thank you very much for your reply, Ute.

Your method sounds a bit easier. I should have mentioned
that the slide in question has 4 boxes surrounding a
picture. These boxes contain text -- which is what we're
most concerned with "flipping". I think your "extra
step" will solve the problem -- we are not worried about
flipping the picture.

Sammye

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

It sounds that, although there are workarounds, you might like this to be a
lot easier to do in PowerPoint.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide this kind of functionality (mirrored printing), don't
forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
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that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

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Microsoft Corporation
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Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
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