Screen capture size

[John M Conway]

Hi --

When I paste a screen capture (image of website, whatever) it's just
slightly larger than the pre-set PPoint image size.

Is there a way to adjust the screen capture size to fit perfectly?

I'm using PP2002, XP professional.

Seems to me when I was using W2K this was not a problem -- or if
anything the screen capture size was SMALLER than the PPoint "template"

Thanks.

 

[PTT, Inc.]

Words of wisdom on "Pasting" - "Try not to use this method unless absolutely
necessary (or if you only have one or two images)! Reason being is that
pasting images onto a PowerPoint slide will cause the file size to increase
dramatically. The best method is to copy your image you want to use, open a
graphics program like Microsoft Photo Editor, click "Edit", "Paste as new
image". Save the file as a JPG. Return to PowerPoint and here you have two
options:

1. "Insert", "Picture", "From file" (which will still cause you to have to
resize the image depending on the resolution), or,

2. "Format", "Background", click the dropdown arrow and select "Fill
Effects", click the "Picture" TAB, click "Select Picture", then browse and
select your image you just created. This will automatically size your image
to your slide size (which obviously needs to be consistent with the image
type, for example Landscape versus Portrait). Plus this will result in the
smallest file size possible which makes using and/or sending the PowerPoint
presentation easier.

Feel free to check out www.pptfaq.com for this and other tips, in
particular, http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00224.htm!

Good Luck & Happy New Year!

Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com

 

[John M Conway]

Thanks, Bill..

I appreciate your helpful suggestions.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for (when
pasting images to automatically have picture fill entire slide area).
However, if you are using PowerPoint 2002 or 2003, you can take advantage
of the multiple masters feature to workaround this limitation:

1) Create a new Slide Master based on the default slide master that you are
currently using
2) Resize the "Object Area for AutoLayouts" so that it fills the entire
slide area
3) Drag the "Title Area for AutoLayouts" outside the slide area
4) Close Slide Master view
5) Insert new slide
6) Change slide design of new slide to use the new slide master you created
7) Change slide layout to "Content"
8) Go to take screen snapshot of whatever you want to put in the slide and
then return to this slide
9) Select the content placeholder (which should fill the entire slide area
because of the changes made to the slide master)
10) Edit -> Paste

RESULT: The clipboard contents should go into the content placeholder and,
as a result, automatically scale to fit within the slide area.

Repeat steps 5-10 as needed

When you need slides which do not include a full-screen shapshot you can
apply the original slide design to those slides.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide an easier way to accomplish this, don't forget to send
your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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

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your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
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John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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