Enlarging text during presentation

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I am an attorney, and during a recent trial the other side had all of their
documents scanned into Powerpoint. As we looked at each document on the
screen, the attorney was able to make a box around a specific paragraph, and
then that paragraph would pop out of the document and be large enough for
everyone to see. I cannot for the life of me figure out how they did this. I
have Office Powerpoint 2003. Maybe this is not the right program? Any ideas?

Thanks for your time,
Laura
 
Thanks John. It does zoom in, but it is quite hard to use. It does not pop
out the text that I am trying to enlarge, but instead zooms in on one square
area. Any other ideas? I am beginning to think that they must have been using
a different kind of program.
 
Are they able to bring up any area, or just specific areas? The reason I ask
is because I would do this with custom animations to highlight just specific
areas of the content.

To do this, create a second copy of the scan, only this time do it at a
higher resolution. Crop it down to just the paragraph you want. Insert that
copy on top of the main copy. Give the paragraph an entrance animation of
Expand. Make sure that animation is the last one on the animation list for
the slide.

You could even go tricky and make the expand a triggered animation. If you
want to learn more about that, just ask!

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Thanks Kathy:) That is what I have done before, but now the attorneys want to
be able to pick out specific portions of a document right in front of the
jury to enlarge. Thanks again for your help.
 
Three solutions come to my mind:

- Microsoft has a new Zoom tool:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/zoomit.mspx
The magnified area fills the whole screen, you can move around with the
mouse to other areas; start it with Ctrl+1 (or custom-defined shortcut)

- Virtual Magnifying Glass, http://magnifier.sourceforge.net/, a freeware
tool that draws a frame around a part of the screen, you can adjust
magnification factor; insert an action button on the slide master to start
it

- Microsoft has a new line of mouse types, that have a built-in Magnifyer;
started with a key on the side of the mouse; price nearly the same as for
other mice.

Best regards,
Ute
 
LauraLumaghi said:
Thanks Kathy:) That is what I have done before, but now the attorneys want to
be able to pick out specific portions of a document right in front of the
jury to enlarge. Thanks again for your help.
Click to expand...

I'd wonder what circumstances the attorneys want to be able to magnify
anything. If it's in response to some discussion they can't forecast then
it's far more difficult than show a magnified version of pre-selected words.

If you watch TV documentaries you'll see that a document is shown and then a
box opens with a few words in it.

If juries are used to this method they'll be more likely to follow it in the
courtroom.

Dave.
 
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