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My PowerPoint slide presentations are prepared on a PC and include graphics, movies and word slides. I want to change the present format to a 3:1 format to fit newer screens. I want to stay with the PC and not have to switch to Apple
 
Go to File > Page Setup and select "Custom" and set the dimensions to what
you want. Then set up your presentation. If you do this after the fact,
you will get very bad distortion of the slide contents.
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Dennis Smiler said:
My PowerPoint slide presentations are prepared on a PC and include
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graphics, movies and word slides. I want to change the present format to a
3:1 format to fit newer screens. I want to stay with the PC and not have to
switch to Apple
 
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Hello,

When you change the aspect ratio of slides in a presentation, PowerPoint
will resize and reposition items relative to the new center coordinates of
the slides to avoid objects moving outside the slide area or excessive
empty space. This results in objects being distorted maintain their
size/location relative to the center of the new slide dimensions.
PowerPoint cannot distort text so, even though shapes containing text might
be stretched or squashed, the text will be resized proportionally and,
possibly, wrap differently within shapes.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions as to how
PowerPoint should handle non-proportional changes to the aspect ratio of
slides, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:

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

It's VERY important that, for EACH wish, you describe in detail, WHY it is
important TO YOU that your product suggestion be implemented. A good wish
submssion includes WHAT scenario, work-flow, or end-result is blocked by
not having a specific feature, HOW MUCH time and effort ($$$) is spent
working around a specific limitation of the current product, etc. Remember
that 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 so that we can FEEL YOUR PAIN.

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

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