Scroll Bars

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Hello,

Is there a way to include a scroll bar for a
picture/object/or bitmap? I have a picture from a web
application that I would like to use in a presentation.
The picture however is to big to fit on the slides. It is
actually several pages long. If I resize the object it
becomes extremely difficult to see the object. So I would
like to be able to scroll up and down describing what is
detailed in the object. Is this possible?

Thank You
 
Since you can't scroll off the screen, one way would be to edit the image
and split it into slide sized chunks. Add each chunk to a slide. Then
create a master slide of the original image that has been re-sized to fit a
slide. Create a rectangle that will cover the equivalent of the first
chunk. Link it to the "chunk slide". Assign it "no fill" and "no line" so
that it is invisible. Repeat for the other chunks.
 
I would prefer to use a scroll bar. Similar to the way you
can use the control object Microsoft Office Spreadsheet
11.0 in slideview. The only difference would be to use an
object rather than excel data.

Thanks
 
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Hello,

PowerPoint doesn't provide the functionality that you are looking for.

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Is there a way to include a scroll bar for a
picture/object/or bitmap? I have a picture from a web
application that I would like to use in a presentation.
The picture however is to big to fit on the slides. It is
actually several pages long. If I resize the object it
becomes extremely difficult to see the object. So I would
like to be able to scroll up and down describing what is
detailed in the object. Is this possible?
Click to expand...

It might work to use Shyam's Live Web addin, which lets you embed a browser
window in PPT. The browser could be displaying your image and will probably
display scrollbars if the image is bigger than the window alotted.

I think. ;-)

IAC, it's a free add-in: www.mvps.org/skp
 
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