Letters bunching up

[Chaplain Doug]

PowerPoint 2003. I have a peculiar phenomenon occurring. I have a
PowerPoint presentation that looks fine when run on my desktop or my laptop.
However, when I hook up the laptop to either one of my projectors, the
PowerPoint presentation's text appears bunched up over each other both on the
projector screen and on the laptop screen. When I press function-F8 on the
laptop and turn off the video signal going to the projector from the laptop,
the letters again appear fine on the screen.

I tried changing the font from Tahoma to Arial, and that appeared to work,
but then latter some slides with Arial also bunched up. What could be
causing this and how would I fix it? Thanks and God bless.

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Check the Web site of the manufacturer of your video card to see if there
are any driver updates. This sounds like a video driver problem, rather
than a PowerPoint problem.
--David

--
David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Austin Myers]

And just as an FYI, the resolution of your monitor MUST match the resolution
of the projector.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

Is your laptop a wide screen laptop? If so, try switiching it so that the
screen size is the same as a regular laptop - that should fix the
squichiness.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Chaplain Doug]

I changed the resolution on my laptop to 800x600 (the max for the projector)
and the presentation worked just fine. To test whether this indeed was the
definitive solution, I set the laptop resolution back up a couple notches
above the projector max and the presentation still worked fine. I am in a
quandry as I distributed a presentation and if anyone has a problem with the
letters bunching up, I would love to be able to tell them that setting the
resolution is the definitive solution.

Is it possible for this resolution imcompatability between laptop and
projector to cause random and sometimes irreproducable problems?
--
Dr. Doug Pruiett
Good News Jail & Prison Ministry
www.goodnewsjail.org

Is your laptop a wide screen laptop? If so, try switiching it so that the
screen size is the same as a regular laptop - that should fix the
squichiness.

--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint - Available now from Holy Macro! Books
Get PowerPoint answers at http://www.powerpointanswers.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

 

[Echo Swinford]

I changed the resolution on my laptop to 800x600 (the max for the projector)
and the presentation worked just fine. To test whether this indeed was the
definitive solution, I set the laptop resolution back up a couple notches
above the projector max and the presentation still worked fine. I am in a
quandry as I distributed a presentation and if anyone has a problem with the
letters bunching up, I would love to be able to tell them that setting the
resolution is the definitive solution.

Is it possible for this resolution imcompatability between laptop and
projector to cause random and sometimes irreproducable problems?

I've seen this happen on a regular old desktop that wasn't hooked to a
projector. I don't know exactly what causes -- or fixes -- the
problem, though.
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com