Linking landscape and portrait presentations

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I've read the suggested tutorial and tried it about a thousand times, but for
whatever reason, it ain't working for me. I'm using Powerpoint 2007 with
Vista.

Having carefully followed the instructions, I don't know what to do next.
And, btw, in PP2007, right-clicking does not bring up "Custom Animation", so
I select Show Linked Presentation, which did indeed bring up the first
presentation. However, the problem comes in when I want to go to the second
one (the portrait pres.). Linking back to the first presentation brings up
the first slide, rather than where I want it (slide 8). Any suggestions? This
is pretty urgent.
 
The easiest way would be to insert slides with black background in your
landscape presentation and insert your portrait content on them. The effect
on the screen will be the same.

Best regards,
Ute
 
Thanks for the quick response, but I'm not understanding how that would work.
If the slide is wider than it's high, and the slide I want to insert is an 8
x 11, part of the important information is cut off.
 
Graphogoddess said:
Thanks for the quick response, but I'm not understanding how that would work.
If the slide is wider than it's high, and the slide I want to insert is an 8
x 11, part of the important information is cut off.
Click to expand...

Shrink it so it fits the height of the horizontal/landscap slide you're adding
it to.
 
Steve,
That doesn't work for me. What I'm showing needs to be full-size. I'm
presenting samples of handwriting and when they are shrunk, I am unable to
illustrate the important points. That's why I need both portrait and
landscape, and since so many people seem able to do it successfully by
linking, I'm trying to figure out why I'm not being successful with it since
"upgrading" to PP 2007.
 
Ute,
Unless I'm completely dense, this is still a matter of squashing my portrait
slides to fit a landscape slide. I know how to do that, but the effect is not
good for my presentation.

Is it just me, or is linking presentations no longer available in 2007? I
did it with varied success in 2003.
 
That doesn't work for me. What I'm showing needs to be full-size. I'm
presenting samples of handwriting and when they are shrunk, I am unable to
illustrate the important points. That's why I need both portrait and
landscape, and since so many people seem able to do it successfully by
linking, I'm trying to figure out why I'm not being successful with it since
"upgrading" to PP 2007.
Click to expand...

Am I missing something important?

You have a portrait slide and play it back as a slide show.

It's going to have to fit on a horizontal screen, so it'll be as high as the screen
is.

Or you put the same vertical information on a horizontal slide and play it back as a
slide show. It's going to have to fit on a horizontal screen, so it'll be ... wait
for it ... as high as the screen is.

So unless you plan to use a great big square screen and turn the projector on its
side when playing back vertical stuff, I can't see the point of mixing vertical and
horizontal slides. Your content will project to the same size either way.
 
One of us isn't understanding the other, and I fully admit it's probably me,
your patronizing comment notwithstanding : ) But the fact is, if I make a
portrait slide fit a landscape slide, keeping the image at the size I need,
the whole thing won't fit on the slide. Reducing the image is not going to
help me.

Clearly, I will have to find some other workaround.
 
One of us isn't understanding the other, and I fully admit it's probably me,
your patronizing comment notwithstanding : )
Click to expand...

Sorry you felt that way. It wasn't so intended.
But the fact is, if I make a
portrait slide fit a landscape slide, keeping the image at the size I need,
the whole thing won't fit on the slide. Reducing the image is not going to
help me.
Click to expand...

So long as you're displaying a presentation on screen or data projector, the maximum
height you can have, period, is the height of the computer screen. That will be the same
whether the slide is portrait or landscape.

Reducing the image to the available screen real estate is the only option.

If you're printing these things, it's an entirely different story.
 
I probably didn't explain it properly. It's not a matter of the maximum
height, it's how large I can display an entire image. If I shrink an 8 1/2 x
11 sample of handwriting on a landscape slide the handwriting is much smaller
than if I put the it on a portrait slide.

I was able to accomplish what I wanted (mixing landscape and portrait) in
PP2003 and I can't in 2007. Since my 6 hour lecture is on Saturday in another
state, I've decided to just use portrait for all slides. It's frustrating,
though, as it's "supposed to work."
 
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