Windows PowerPoint: Display 35mm slide format (3:2 aspect) on moni

[The Color Orange]

I've created a Slide Show using Page Setup / Slides sized for: 35mm Slides.
Now I need to display the Slide Show in that same format (aspect ratio 3 wide
by 2 high) on a PC monitor and projector, but PowerPoint squeezes the image
horizontally, making the photos, text and graphics width look cramped or
misshapen.

Can I set PowerPoint to quit "making best use of the full screen" so I can
see my presentation as it was intended? (Not to mention potential demand for
16:9 format)

 

[The Color Orange]

Thanks for answering, Steve.

PowerPoint 2002 SP3, in Windows XP.

Yes, I had set up the 35mm format in Page Setup before creating the show,
and it hasn't been changed. What you described is what I expected to see
but, as I said, the horizontal aspect is narrowed when I View Show.

Hey, by golly, I just found the answer! When I select Slide Show / Set Up
Show, the setting Slide Show Resolution had defaulted to 800x600 (even though
the system's Display Setting is 1024x768). I changed this ...Resolution in
the list box to [Use Current Resolution], and it now displays the way we
thought it would.

Thanks again, for clearing a space for me to stumble across the solution.


~ JBW The Color Orange


p.s. The phrase "making best use of the full screen" is something I found
in one of the Microsoft FAQ solution pages.

 

[The Color Orange]

Yeah, Steve, just let it go this time :-]

I presume that PPT Slide Show\Setup\Slide Show Resolution defaults to [Use
Current Resolution], and that I may have once changed it to 800x600 to match
an older projector we had to use, then forgotten to reset it. That would
have overridden the File\Page Setup\Slides sized for\35mm Slides. But I
agree with you that the aspect ratio of the visible image should still appear
3:2, like a 35mm slide, with black at the top and bottom of the screen.

The presentation in question is one of my older ones, so maybe there's a
display anomoly somewhere between the (two or three) computer systems or PPT
versions I've used since I created it.

Anyway, our discussion was enlightening to me, if not to you. Ha! Even so,
I hesitate to assign Answer status to this thread, since we haven't locked
down a definite cause. I do appreciate your attention, and this technology
that facilitates it, so I'm selecting the Yes (helpful) button.

Bye for now,

~ JBW The Color Orange

 

[Echo S]

Anyway, our discussion was enlightening to me, if not to you. Ha! Even so,
I hesitate to assign Answer status to this thread, since we haven't locked
down a definite cause. I do appreciate your attention, and this technology
that facilitates it, so I'm selecting the Yes (helpful) button.

Even though the definite cause hasn't been nailed down, you did come across
a viable workaround. (Yay!) And you know, this info might be useful to
someone in future. By selecting Yes/Helpful, it ensures that this thread
will pop up in the results when people search for answers later. That's a
good thing.

 

[The Color Orange]

Hi Echo,

I have a question about Helpful Yes.

When I sign in to review a thread I have generated, my own posts allow me to
rate them Helpful Yes/No, which seems rather unnecessary. Then the reply
posts from others only allow me to select "Did this post answer the
question?" Yes/No.

If another's reply was Helpful but did not answer the question, how am I to
rate it?
I could come back in and select Helpful Yes on my own post. Would that
alone make the thread appear in a Search on Helpful, or do I have to select
"Did this post answer the question?" Yes, on the other person's reply?

Thank you for helping me learn the ropes.

~ JBW The Color Orange

 

[Echo S]

When you look at a thread that you originated, you have the option to choose
"Did this post answer the question?" on any replies to your original
question. You have that option because, as the original asker, only you can
determine if a post indeed answered your question. (MVPs can also mark a
post as having answered a question, but I can assure you that the only time
any of us do that in this group is if we happen to run across an old post
with good information that we want to make sure shows up when people search.
We're not gonna go marking someone's recent posts answered or anything like
that.)

When you look at threads originated by others, *you* will see a "Was this
post helpful?" thing; of course, the original poster will see "Did this
answer your question?" The "Was this helpful?" option allows community
members to say that they found certain posts helpful. Those are the posts
that will bubble to the top when future users search for answers using the
search wizard on the web interface.

So yes, you can absolutely rate posts as helpful but as not having answered
your question. If you hit the Help button on the far right of the web
interface page, there's a section on "Why should I rate a post?" It does a
much better job of explaining how the helpful counts work. It does take more
than one person marking "yes, helpful" to a post before the threshhold that
identifies the post as helpful is crossed.

The reason you see a "Was this post helpful" thing on your original posts as
well is because people might want to flag your post as being helpful. Maybe
you've posted a tip as opposed to a question. Or maybe you posted the
question they always wanted to ask, but didn't. Or whatever. I wouldn't
worry about it too much. Feel free to mark your own post as helpful if you
want, but don't feel obligated to do so! I'd probably be more likely to mark
specific response posts as helpful or as answering the question.

About clear as mud, isn't it?

 

[The Color Orange]

Thanks again, Echo.

~ JBW - TCO

When you look at a thread that you originated, you have the option to choose
"Did this post answer the question?" on any replies to your original
question. You have that option because, as the original asker, only you can
determine if a post indeed answered your question. (MVPs can also mark a
post as having answered a question, but I can assure you that the only time
any of us do that in this group is if we happen to run across an old post
with good information that we want to make sure shows up when people search.
We're not gonna go marking someone's recent posts answered or anything like
that.)

When you look at threads originated by others, *you* will see a "Was this
post helpful?" thing; of course, the original poster will see "Did this
answer your question?" The "Was this helpful?" option allows community
members to say that they found certain posts helpful. Those are the posts
that will bubble to the top when future users search for answers using the
search wizard on the web interface.

So yes, you can absolutely rate posts as helpful but as not having answered
your question. If you hit the Help button on the far right of the web
interface page, there's a section on "Why should I rate a post?" It does a
much better job of explaining how the helpful counts work. It does take more
than one person marking "yes, helpful" to a post before the threshhold that
identifies the post as helpful is crossed.

The reason you see a "Was this post helpful" thing on your original posts as
well is because people might want to flag your post as being helpful. Maybe
you've posted a tip as opposed to a question. Or maybe you posted the
question they always wanted to ask, but didn't. Or whatever. I wouldn't
worry about it too much. Feel free to mark your own post as helpful if you
want, but don't feel obligated to do so! I'd probably be more likely to mark
specific response posts as helpful or as answering the question.

About clear as mud, isn't it?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Hi Echo,

I have a question about Helpful Yes.

When I sign in to review a thread I have generated, my own posts allow me to
rate them Helpful Yes/No, which seems rather unnecessary. Then the reply
posts from others only allow me to select "Did this post answer the
question?" Yes/No.

If another's reply was Helpful but did not answer the question, how am I to
rate it?
I could come back in and select Helpful Yes on my own post. Would that
alone make the thread appear in a Search on Helpful, or do I have to select
"Did this post answer the question?" Yes, on the other person's reply?

Thank you for helping me learn the ropes.

~ JBW The Color Orange