Notebook Widescreen Output to Data Projector

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Bill

Hi All,

I am aware that this is probably not really a PowerPoint Question but I am
hoping someone can help.

I have an HP Compaq6820s notebook with a 17" screen. I am running Office
2007 and a screen resolution of 1280x768 with XP Pro as the operating system.
The graphics card is an ATI Radeon and the drivers are up to date.

When I run a PowerPoint presentation with the card set to "clone" the output
is the widescreen output reflecting the notebook screen which many data
projectors cannot handle.
The other option is to set the card to "extend" and this results in having
to manipulate the output onto the right hand side of the screen as "extend"
is too wide for a "standard" desktop. The other answer is to cycle through
the modes until the notebook screen is switched off and I then have a
"standard" desktop image projected by the data projector. This is also far
from ideal.
Does anybody have any suggestions? The possible solution may be to somehow
set the notebook screen yo a "standard" size when using PowerPoint, but I am
not sure how to so this or if it will be practical.

Thanks in advance,

Bill
 
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Austin Myers

Bill,

If I understand what you are saying you are trying to show the same slide at
two different screen ratios. If that is the case you will always have one
screen where the slide doesn't "fit" the way you would like. Afraid your
going to have to decide which one to go with, or get a projector with the
same display ratio as your monitor.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com
 
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Troy @ TLC

The standard practice is:
- Adjust screen resolution (of laptop) to match projector maximum resolution
(which is usually a 4x3 "standard" aspect ratio such as: 1024x768,
1280x1024, etc).
- Depending on your graphics card settings this will either add black letter
box area to your screen or stretch content so it still fills the entire
monitor but is distorted. Either option is fine (this post has more details
on this topic:
http://pptblog.tlccreative.com/index.php/all/2007/02/13/powerpoint_gets_the_blame_with_widescree)
- Clone output
- Projected image will work with projector
- When done, reset resolution to take advantage of your widescreen monitor
 
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Chris Watts

I find it useful to have a new User set up appropriately for use when I am
projecting ppt presentations.

Chris
 
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Bill

Thanks Austin, Troy and Chris - will need to go and do some homework, but
thanks for the suggestions and comments.

Cheers,

Bill
 

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