Images in PowerPoint

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Peter

To whoever can help me out:

I was working with a professor at UT yesterday and he
works with lots of scanned images and PowerPoint. The
problem is this, when he conducts his powerpoint
presentations in class, some of the iamges appear smeared
or out of focus.

So we made a standardized procedure for scanning the
images, @ 72 DPI and within the range of 950-700 pixels,
since most of the projectors run at 1024x768. Once we
import those images into powerpoint, they get put in a
different size than they should be at their native
resolution. Why is this and how can we fix it?
 
Peter,
within the range of 950-700 pixels,
since most of the projectors run at 1024x768. Once we
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You're doing it right.

Powerpoint hazards a guess what "initial" size to put the image when you first insert it. The weather temperature
outside (and the version of powerpoint, and the bitmap type jpg/png/gif/tif/ etc) has an affect on this also ;)

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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Hello,

If you know at what resolution you presentation will be shown, you can
adjust the size of any raster image or movie for best viewing by doing the
following for eadh image/movie in a presentation:

1) Select image/movie
2) Format -> Picture
3) Switch to the "Size" tab or the dialog
4) Select the option to scale "Best scale for slide show" andthen
5) Choose the target resolution from the drop-down list that becomes
available, and
6) Click OK
7) If the image/movie changed size, you might have to readjust it's
position (not size) relative to everything else on the slide to accomodate
the change.

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make this easier to do in PowerPoint (without having to resort to VBA or
add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
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Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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