This is another one of those questions that appear from time to time.
It brings to mind a single question... why?
When you show a presentation, the projector is set in either a horizontal
position which yields landscape mode, or a vertical position that yields
portrait displays. This is because of the projector's physical design,
which is not changeable in any model I have ever seen. I suppose it could
be changed by using either a motorized projector cradle or a complex system
of first surface mirrors, but again, I have never seen either of these
set-ups.
Here is the reasoning.... If you show a portrait presentation through a
landscape oriented projector, you will cause the projector to crop the
unused side areas and reduce the display resolution within the area the
slide is shown . If the projectors display is able to project at 1024 x 768
pixels and is set for landscape projection, then when it tries to show a
slide in portrait it can only use the available height of 768. This reduces
the usable width (in order to keep everything in proportion) to 576 pixels.
You will be cropping 224 pixels off of both sides of the projector's screen
and reducing the quality of the pictures by 1/2. The bottom line is the
slide will be much grainier and less attractive. The converse set-up
(portrait projector/landscape slide) is equally true.
If you are going to loose the resolution and crop the unused areas anyway,
why not keep the presentation in a single orientation (landscape for
instance) and just build the slide to emulate a portrait display? Place a
large black box from the top margin to the bottom and against the outside
edge. Duplicate the box on the other side of the slide and adjust the size
of the opening between them to fake the portrait size (each box will need to
block 224 pixels of the width off the landscape slide, or of the height of a
portrait slide).
The one instance where I can see the usefulness of mixing orientations,
would be in the case of inserting slides from a outside presentation (of the
opposite orientation). In that case, it is easier to just insert the second
presentation into the first as an object, resized to fill as much of the
slide as it can.
In case I have missed another good reason, could I ask a favor of you?
Could you post back with the reason for mixing orientations?
Thank you,
B
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-----Original Message-----
I want to have some slides in landscape but need a few in
portrait. I have tried everything to do this but have
failed so far.
Anyone ever done this, or has had the need to do this.
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I need to do this, too! The help button says to have the
portrait slides in one presentation and link it to the
presentation with the landscape slides via hyper link, but
the "action settings" button nor the hyperlink button is
not active, making this impossible. I've copied the
instructions below -- maybe it will work for you. (I
typed "landscape" in the help index to get this...) I
hope we both get the answer to this REAL SOON!
link the portrait
Add, edit, and remove hyperlinks in a presentation
By using the Action Settings command on the Slide Show
menu, you can create a hyperlink from any object ¾
including text, shapes, tables, graphs, or pictures ¾ and
use it to jump to another place in your presentation,
another presentation, another program such as Word, or an
address on the Internet. Hyperlinks become active when you
run your slide show, not when you're creating the show.
You can attach different actions, including sound, to the
same object ¾ depending on whether you click the object or
move the mouse over it. Text hyperlinks appear underlined
and in a color that coordinates with the color scheme. You
can edit or change the destination of a hyperlink
¾ or you can change the object that represents a
hyperlink ¾ without losing the hyperlink. If you delete
all of the text or the entire object, however, you will
lose the hyperlink.
When you create a hyperlink, you can set the path to its
destination as an absolute link
¾ a fixed file location that identifies the destination by
its full address, such as c:\My Documents\Sales.doc ¾ or
you can set the path as a relative link.
Note You can also quickly set up hyperlinks by clicking
Insert Hyperlink on the Standard toolbar. This button
is also used in Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft
Access.
