How do I change one slide to landscape?

[m0ns3w3r]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I want to change one slide in PowerPoint 2008 on a mac to landscape and I can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Tim Murray]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I want to change one slide in PowerPoint 2008 on a mac to landscape and I
can't figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You don't. Not the "slide", anyway. It's the content.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I want to change one slide in PowerPoint 2008 on a mac to landscape and I can't figure

it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can't.

PPT doesn't allow orientation changes mid-presentation. All slides in a single file are
either landscape or portrait.

Depending on how you're delivering the presentation, it may not even make any sense to
mix 'n match. If you're projecting or viewing on a monitor, a vertical image on a
vertical slide will end up the same size (on the screen) as the same vertical image on a
horizontal slide.

Mix Portrait and Landscape slides in a presentation
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00042.htm

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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[m0ns3w3r]

Ah, okay. What I'm doing is creating a ppt to be exported as a pdf, so it can be read.

I found PowerPoint to be a much more flexible tool than word for creating docs that have objects such as pictures and embedded tables than word.

Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Ah, okay. What I'm doing is creating a ppt to be exported as a pdf, so it can be read.

I can see where that might occasionally want changes to orientation, but still, if they're reading it
on screen, the screen won't change orientation, so pages that don't match the screen will have to
shrink to fit. Better to format everything for screen proportions in the first place. Or so my
opinion would have it.

One thing you can do, if you have Acrobat, is to insert pages from one PDF into another. You could
create your portrait stuff in one PPT, your landscape stuff in another, make PDF of both then insert

I found PowerPoint to be a much more flexible tool than word for creating docs that have objects such

as pictures and embedded tables than word.

Thanks.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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