Hi Christina,
You can use a variation of the same method that Publisher recommends to
create a "bleed" print. From Publisher's help file:
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To create a bleed (bleed: The extent to which a picture runs off the
printed page.) for your publication, you need to set it up to print on a
sheet of paper that's larger than the finished publication page. For
example, if you are printing to a desktop printer and your publication page
is a standard letter size, you would print it on tabloid paper. If you are
printing to an imagesetter (imagesetter: A high resolution output device
that prints to paper or film, or directly to a press plate. Publications
that will be commercially printed are usually output from an imagesetter as
the first step toward going to press.), you would print a specialized paper
size such as Letter.Extra. The paper size you select will depend on the
paper sizes your desktop printer or imagesetter accommodates.
Set up the page size and the printer paper size. How?
On the File menu, click Page Setup.
In the Page Setup dialog box, under Publication type, select the layout you
want.
Your selection represents the page size, not the printer paper size.
If you need to change the page size, enter your changes in the Width and
Height boxes.
Click the Printer and Paper tab.
In the Size box, click the printer paper size you will use for printing.
Make sure you select a paper size that is larger than your publication page
size.
Position the object that you want to bleed so that it extends beyond the
edges of the publication page .
You can create a bleed with text, pictures, or any other type of object.
After printing, trim the paper to the size of the publication by using the
crop marks (crop marks: Marks that show where a publication page will be
trimmed. Crop marks show only when the page has been printed to a paper
size that is larger than the page.) as your guides.
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So, basically, you would change you slide size to be the same as the
physical dimensions of the paper you want to use (e.g. 8.5" by 11")
Then you would print the presentation to your device (choosing a paper size
in the printer properties <not in PowerPoint>) that is larger than the
slide dimensions, such as Tabloid paper).
PowerPoint will print the 8.5" x 11" slide area centered in the printable
area of a tabloid sheet of paper for your device and then you would trim
the excess paper from the tabloid sheet so that you are left with just the
8.5" x 11" slide (with no white margin). PowerPoint does't provide crop
marks (like Publisher) since it's really a feature for high-end publishing
(not for presentations).
If you actually have a printer device which has no unprintable area for
8.5" by 11" (let me know who make this :->), so that you can print from
edge-to-edge without having to go through the previous workaround, it's
much simpler. You simply change you page size in PowerPoint to the paper
size of your output (e.g. 8.5" x 11") and when you print your slides use
the "Scale to fit paper" option in the Print dialog. ("Scale to fit paper"
really means scale slide proportionally to be centered within the maximum
print area for the printer for the selected paper size).
As usual, course, if you (or anyone else reading this message) feel
strongly that PowerPoint should provide support for some more advanced
printing features (such as bleeds), don't forget to send your feedback 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
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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