poster printing option is missing

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Hi,
The option to select poster print was useful in the previous version of power point that I had.
I would simply go file, print, properties, features, poster printing.

I now have the 2003 version which does not have this option.
Please help.

brake-for-moose.
 
brake-for-moose said:
Hi,
The option to select poster print was useful in the previous version of power point that I had.
I would simply go file, print, properties, features, poster printing.

I now have the 2003 version which does not have this option.
Please help.
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I don't remember PPT ever having a poster print option. I would almost
bet this was a feature of your printer driver, not PPT.

At any rate, do you need to print out "tiled" format, or do you just
need a size increase? If you can help us with the details of what you're
trying to do, we can probably come up with a workaround for you.
 
[CRITICAL UPDATE - If you are using Office 2003, you should install this
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

PowerPoint does not allow a slide size larger than 56" x 56" and also does
not have the capability to do tiled printing of slides where the slide is
printed in sections (as large as your printer will allow) which can then be
assembed, after the fact, into a poster.

However there are at least a couple of workarounds for large format /
poster printing:

1) If you have a large format printer which can produce output large enough
for your poster/banner on a single sheet of paper, simply specify a slide
size (proportional to your poster or banner dimensions) that is within the
maximum allowable slide size in PowerPoint and, when printing, use the
"Scale to fit paper" option when printing to a printer which supports print
areas larger than the maximum slide size in PowerPoint.

OR

2) If you don't have a large format printer but you DO have Publisher, you
can copy and paste your creation from PowerPoint into a Publisher poster or
banner template. Publisher does support tiled printing and also allows you
to specify page sizes up to 20x20 feet.

If support for larger paper sizes, or the ability to tile print your poster
or banner (slide) is important to you (or anyone else reading this
message), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) 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.

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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