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(Edited by Leif to make link live – see the quick guide and/or Help 19)

Richard,

This page from the FAQ may help you…
Make screenshow fill a wide screen display
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00566.htm%5B/url%5D

This posting from “adam crowley” goes into detail about 16:9 proportions….
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?hl=en&am…60@TK2MSFTNGP11%5B/url%5D

If it was me, I’d want to do a few tests beforehand.

>If PowerPoint re-scales the image twice, once to fit on the slide and again when projected, back to its original dimensions, is any quality being lost in the process?
No quality is lost by powerpoint re-scaling an image.

If you put an image into powerpoint that only contains 500 pixels (wide), then scale the image to fill the screen, then powerpoint is going to scale the 500 pixel image to fill (approx) 1000 pixels wide. So it ‘smooths’ the picture. It’s not going to look too great.

What would be better is to put a 1000 pixel wide image into powerpoint if you to full the screen with the image.

You could put a 2000 pixel wide image into powerpoint and scale it to full the screen…..but when you project the image on a laptop/pc/projector combination that only supports 1024 pixels wide (lets call it 1000 !), then you’re wasting pixels. You’re making your files bigger than they need to be, and generally giving powerpoint ‘more to do’. The less you give powerpoint to do the better!.

If you’re interested in reading a little bit more on this subject… see
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm

Cheers
TAJ

(Edited by WendellB on 08-Feb-05 14:32. Activate Link – see Help 19)

bbrown5,

See
Clocks and timers for PowerPoint
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00081.htm%5B/url%5D

Cheers

Jeebs68,

What HansV said but also….. another option you may find useful…

When you display a powerpoint slideshow, the font’s are smoothed by the “font smoothing” features of windows. When you save a slide as a JPG from powerpoint, the font smoothing feature is not used. The result is the “Jaggies”. One way to quickly get nice JPGs is to capture the slideshow as you display each screen. Just press the special “PrtScrn” or “Print screen” key on your keyboard when you have your 1st slide displayed.

Then paste this image into your favorite pixel basher (photoshop… paint shop pro etc). Then repeat for all the slides.

Pressing Alt and the TAB key will help you toggle between powerpoint and your pixel basher software.

Cheers

Tanya,

As well as moving the AVI to c:
Did you also *re-insert* the movie using
Insert > movies > from file ?

Next question… where did the AVI file come from?

Cheers

Porley,

Powerpoint only allows you to put 8 colors in the color palette, (or color scheme as powerpoint calls it).
There is no better explanation of the color schemes (that I know of) than these two pages.

http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm%5B/url%5D
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes2.htm%5B/url%5D

You are now going to post back something about the color palette that is part of the “graph” area of powerpoint

Cheers

Porley,

Powerpoint only allows you to put 8 colors in the color palette, (or color scheme as powerpoint calls it).
There is no better explanation of the color schemes (that I know of) than these two pages.

http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm%5B/url%5D
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes2.htm%5B/url%5D

You are now going to post back something about the color palette that is part of the “graph” area of powerpoint

Cheers

RudiS,

in powerpoint
Go to the Format menu > Slide Layout > Content Layouts (why the blank layout is in ‘content layouts’ I’ll never know) > Blank > Apply to selected slide. Then delete the original placeholders.

This stops the placeholders from being placeholders (or following the slidemaster) . Which If I’d of thought of it originally, is a quicker way than….CTRL Copying!.

I hope that makes sense.

Cheers
TAJ

RudiS,

in powerpoint
Go to the Format menu > Slide Layout > Content Layouts (why the blank layout is in ‘content layouts’ I’ll never know) > Blank > Apply to selected slide. Then delete the original placeholders.

This stops the placeholders from being placeholders (or following the slidemaster) . Which If I’d of thought of it originally, is a quicker way than….CTRL Copying!.

I hope that makes sense.

Cheers
TAJ

RudiS,

A quick solution is to assign the animations on the slide master (like you have done) for the 78 slides.
For the extra 2 slides. Either

(1) Use a blank layout, Add new text boxes and assign them the custom animations that you want.
Or….
(2) On the current 2 extra slides….Hold down the CTRL key to select both the current “placeholders” (i.e. Title and bullet list), then while still holding the CTRL key drag them (using the mouse) to make a COPY. Delete the original placeholders. Change the “layout” to “blank”. Then you are free to assign you own custom animations to the copied text boxes.

Cheers

RudiS,

A quick solution is to assign the animations on the slide master (like you have done) for the 78 slides.
For the extra 2 slides. Either

(1) Use a blank layout, Add new text boxes and assign them the custom animations that you want.
Or….
(2) On the current 2 extra slides….Hold down the CTRL key to select both the current “placeholders” (i.e. Title and bullet list), then while still holding the CTRL key drag them (using the mouse) to make a COPY. Delete the original placeholders. Change the “layout” to “blank”. Then you are free to assign you own custom animations to the copied text boxes.

Cheers

(Edited by WendellB on 16-Sep-04 14:28. Activate web links)

Porley,

It’s either a case of doing it do it manually or using a third part application.

See,
Why are my PowerPoint files so big? What can I do about it?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00062.htm%5B/url%5D

And
Tutorial on Powerpoint Graphics – avoiding the filesize bloat
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm%5B/url%5D

And
Presentation optimizer
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/FAQ00013.htm%5B/url%5D

nx powerlite
http://www.nxpowerlite.com/%5B/url%5D

To do it manually

In powerpoint . select the picture…edit > copy . Start MS Photo Editor (nothing else will do…not photoshop not psp)
Edit > Paste
Save the picture as PNG or JPG
Then re-size the picture (using your favorite pixel basher) to the correct amount of pixels (see tutorial on graphics above)
Then Insert > picture from file (in powerpoint)
Re-size be using the corner handles to avoid distortion.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

(Edited by WebGenii on 12-Sep-04 21:52. added hyperlinks)

MaryH,

This add-in / macro will remove the custom animations every slide….
http://www.mvps.org/skp/ppt00037.htm%5B/url%5D

Either follow the instructions on the same page…or see
How do I USE this VBA stuff in PowerPoint?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00033.htm%5B/url%5D

To remove any page/slide transitions….
View menu > slide sorter
Edit menu > select all
Slideshow menu > slide transition > effect > change this to “no effect” > click Apply to all

To remove the sounds…..you’ll have to do that manually unless anyone else knows how.

Cheers

(Edited by WebGenii on 12-Sep-04 21:52. added hyperlinks)

MaryH,

This add-in / macro will remove the custom animations every slide….
http://www.mvps.org/skp/ppt00037.htm%5B/url%5D

Either follow the instructions on the same page…or see
How do I USE this VBA stuff in PowerPoint?
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00033.htm%5B/url%5D

To remove any page/slide transitions….
View menu > slide sorter
Edit menu > select all
Slideshow menu > slide transition > effect > change this to “no effect” > click Apply to all

To remove the sounds…..you’ll have to do that manually unless anyone else knows how.

Cheers

Alan,

There could be two reasons why you do not see the sound icons.

(1) The sound icons have been dragged off the slide area, or they are behind another object.

(2) The sounds may have been added to each slide using Slideshow menu > Slide Transition > Sound

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome – powerpoint backgrounds