Widescreen notebook PCs

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Hilgon van Breda

How do I configure my widescreen and its resolution of my
with Microsoft PowerPoint in slide show mode i.e. getting
rid of the black strips on the side and automatic
configuration with a beamer/projector?
This might be similar to the Smart mode technology with
wide screen televisions that automatically configures
between the wide 16:9 and traditional 4:3 broadcasts.
 
J

John Langhans [MSFT]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
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Updates".]

Hello,

If you are authoring slide show to display on a 16:9 (audience viewable)
display, then simply change the "Page Setup" of your slides to 16 wide and
9 high. You will want to do this prior to adding content to your
presentation, if at all possible, otherwise you will have to go through the
presentation make adjustments to the content which automatically gets
resized when you change the aspect ratio of the slide using Page Setup.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's important that
PowerPoint provide additional wide-screen functionality, don't forget to
send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

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