Rotating the entire show

[Guest]

Hi,
I am running a show for the Relay for Life in my community that will show
the names of those who contributed to the walk. The problem is that the
"luminary" that we are going to show it on is taller than it is wide (almost
a 9:16 ratio which is opposite of wide screen t.v.'s.) and the projector in
order to fill the screen up as far tall as possible will have to be turned on
it's side. In other words, the entire power point will need to be rotated 90
degrees so that everything is the right way up. So what I was wondering is
if there is a way to have power point rotate the show when presented so I
won't have to rotate all of the names individually. I would rather do this
so then when I type in all of the names, they will be right side up. Also, I
want to do this with a portrait orientation so that it will fit the screen
better.
Thanks in advance!

 

[TAJ Simmons]

hpceman,

As the projector is being rotated 90 degrees.

I believe you will have to design your slides in the normal landscape
orientation.
You will need to rotate the text through 90 degrees.


If you design your slides in portrait, when they are presented through the
projector, they will only occupy the middle third of the screen/projector.


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi,
I am running a show for the Relay for Life in my community that will show
the names of those who contributed to the walk. The problem is that the
"luminary" that we are going to show it on is taller than it is wide (almost
a 9:16 ratio which is opposite of wide screen t.v.'s.) and the projector in
order to fill the screen up as far tall as possible will have to be turned on
it's side. In other words, the entire power point will need to be rotated 90
degrees so that everything is the right way up. So what I was wondering is
if there is a way to have power point rotate the show when presented so I
won't have to rotate all of the names individually. I would rather do this
so then when I type in all of the names, they will be right side up. Also, I
want to do this with a portrait orientation so that it will fit the screen
better.

Hmm.

Suppose you set up your presentation in portrait mode with the dimensions
proportional to final screen size.

Then export each slide as an image.

Start a new presentation, this time landscape, but again proportional to screen
size.

Import each image and rotate it 90 degrees, let it snap to sides of slide and
you should be good to go.

You couldn't do anything with animation, or at least not on the slides that are
imported images (though you could add animated shapes over them and/or create
other slides with animations in between).

There are a couple of tools that'd speed importing the images:

BATCH IMPORT images into PowerPoint
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00050.htm

and some hints for getting better graphics OUT of PPT when you do the exports:

Improve PowerPoint's GIF, BMP, PNG, JPG export resolution
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00052.htm

I'm personally very fond of the PPTools Image Exporter (link on the page above).
But then I wrote it. <g> Give the demo a try if the usual export methods from
PPT don't work out. It can do wonders.