Powerpoint 2003: Slide sorter does not zoom more than 100%

G

Guest

How can I zoom larger than 100% within the slide sorter? I have slides which
are not easily distinguishable. Powerpoint 2000 had this feature, you could
zoom in more than 400%. Any hidden configuration or just a bug?
 
L

Luc

Joe,
If you zoom to 400% you wouldn't be able to see much of the other slides
which beats the purpose of the slide sorter. I think, but maybe I am wrong.
Luc
 
B

Bill Dilworth

As Luc mentioned 100% is the max setting for sorter view. But that doesn't
mean that there are not other ways to get what you want. Could you tell us
a bit more about how you want to use it, and maybe we can help with a work
around.


Are you using it during a presentation? Perhaps the 'presenter view' would
be better.

When starting a new presentation file, consider changing the slide size.
The size of the slide effects the size on the slide sorter view, so if you
set your slide size to 20" x 15" you will get twice the size out of the
sorter view. (The presentation always resizes to the screen size, so a
presentation built in this size will not change the end appearance of the
slide show.)

Turn down your screens' resolution. At 1024x768 you get 3 slides (of
10x7.5) across in slide sorter view, but at 1280x960 you get four smaller
ones. Play with that setting and see if this will get you where you want.
(Sometimes you can cause presentation problems by mis-matching the primary
and secondary monitor resolutions). Always test before you get too involved
in the build.


But, please post back and let us know, so we can offer better advice.

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S

Steve Rindsberg

Joe Scholz said:
How can I zoom larger than 100% within the slide sorter? I have slides which
are not easily distinguishable. Powerpoint 2000 had this feature, you could
zoom in more than 400%. Any hidden configuration or just a bug?

PowerPoint 2000 and for that matter PowerPoint 97, doesn't let you zoom in
closer than 100% in slide sorter view either. You can zoom in to 400% (but no
more) in Slide or Normal view. Perhaps that's what you were thinking of?

There's a bit of Weird PPT Science where you can make the Page Size bigger if
you want larger slides in Slide Sorter view (ie, double both dimensions so they
stay proportional) but this can play games with graphics and text placement; I
wouldn't recommend it as a normal working procedure.
 
G

Guest

Thanks for trying to help. For some reason my user community tells me that
they were able to use 400% zoom in the slide sorter view before I had to
migrate them to PPT 2003. Never mind.
Joe
 
G

Guest

Why did Microsoft Powerpoint Group change this anyway (from PPT2000)???

I have multiple users in my community who have powerpoint slides they need
to sort. The slides look so similar that they can't tell them apart in the
sorter view. The 100% max zoom does not help them to sort slides at all.

To answer your questions: No, it seems not to be used during a presentation.

I'll try the last suggestion you made. Thanks very much. I'll let you know
how it turns out.
 
G

Guest

Well, my users telling me, that they are not able to sort the slides because
in the 100% max zoom they all look alike. And that this was not the case when
they used PPT2000. What can I say. I tried it with their presentation and I
couldn't tell the slides apart. This will add a lot of time to a person who
tries to sort presentation slides.
 
S

Steve Rindsberg

Thanks for trying to help. For some reason my user community tells me that
they were able to use 400% zoom in the slide sorter view before I had to
migrate them to PPT 2003. Never mind.

Might want to see if you can find a machine with a copy of 2000 and get
them to demo what they mean. Often people describe something that's
clearly wrong but when we look into it, they're describing (badly,
sometimes in a way that throws us off the track) something that's really
happening.



 

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