Slide Show too big for display

[Karen]

A colleague of mine created a slide show using some
templates I have set up in England and then presented this
in New York, running it off a lap top.

Unfortunately the slides turned out to be too big for the
screen so that a good third of each of the slides was lost
to the audience (same goes for looking at them on the
laptop that they were on).

This has never happened before, and we have presented
presentations across the world with these templates. Also
everybody else who presented had no problems with their
display.

First thing I checked was that the presentation page set
up was the same as the template - template page set up is
Width 24 and Height 18 - and it was. Have tested the
presenation on laptops here in England and everything is
okay. Unfortunately the original lap top is not available
to do any tests on.

Someone has mentioned that maybe our template is optimized
to be displayed at a certain resolution???

This problem happened a few weeks ago and I am supposed to
give some advice on what went wrong .

I wondered if anyone else had come across this problem
before?

Thankyou very much
Any input would be appreciated.

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Some laptops can go up to higher resolutions but they only display a part of
that resolution (other parts of the resolution/screen can be seen by moving
the mouse towards that direction) - would that be the case?

 

[Karen]

Thanks for such a prompt reply. From what I gather all
the presentations were shown on the same lap top and only
ours had the problem. However, I will certainly ask my
colleague if other parts of the resolution/screen can be
seen by moving the mouse towards that direction and
clarify if they all used the same lap top.

Could you explain to me in a little more detail what you
mean by the lap top only being able to show some fo teh
resolution?

Thanks

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Karen, to make sure I checked this with my laptop - I can go to any
resolution higher than 1024 x 768 on my laptop but it shows only an area of
1024 x 768 - to see the remaining resolution area, you need to move the
mouse pointer in the direction which is cut off.

However, it does not seem to be the problem in your case since you say your
presentation was the only one with problems - and all others ran well from
the same laptop.

That's all the more ironic since PowerPoint by itself is resoution
independent.


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[Guest]

I havn't had a reply back yet from my collegues to confirm
that they did indeed all use the same lap top. So if they
come back saying they actually used different lap tops
then your feedback does sound like you have hit on the
right problem. In which case, where do they need to look
to double check the lap top they are going to use in the
future does show the whole screen?

Thanks for all your help so far.
Karen

 

[Geetesh Bajaj]

Just make sure that the laptop does not use an extended resolution - you can
check this by going to Start | Control Panel | Display (in Windows XP) and
checking the resolution.


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[Steve Rindsberg]

I havn't had a reply back yet from my collegues to confirm
that they did indeed all use the same lap top. So if they
come back saying they actually used different lap tops
then your feedback does sound like you have hit on the
right problem. In which case, where do they need to look
to double check the lap top they are going to use in the
future does show the whole screen?

To add a bit to Geetesh's answer:

You'll want to be certain that the laptop is set to the same resolution as the
projector. Rightclick the desktop, choose Properties and on the Settings tab,
set the appropriate resolution.

You may need to do the same for both monitors and/or remove the check next to
"Extend my desktop onto this monitor" if the laptop supports multiple monitors.

Also, check the slide show settings for your own presentation:

Choose Slide Show, Set Up Show

Verify that the settings for multiple monitors are what you expect them to be
AND that they make sense in the context of the equipment in use where the
presentations are being held. AKA Don't set it up for multiple monitors unless
you're sure that multiple monitors will be available <g>

Set "Slide Show Resolution" to "[Use Current Resolution]"