setting up landscape and protrait slides in same program

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rlentz

I've been trying to make a hyperlink from one file to
another. both are powerpoint files-one for landscape
slides and one for portraits. I use the portrait file to
look up the landscape file in the hyperlink and then link
to it. After I do this I can't seem to find the file and
am don't know how to open the landscape file and create
the link for the portrait slide.
It has been frustrating. Would appreciate advice if you
can help. Thanks
 
Here are some steps:

1. First off, make sure both presentations are in the same folder before
linking.
2. Create any object that you want to assign the link to, right-click that
object and select "Action Settings".
3. Click the "Hyperlink to" dropdown and select "Other PowerPoint
presentation".
4. Browse to your file, select it, then select the slide to link to.
5. Repeat to return.

I usually click the "Autoshapes" icon on the Drawing Toolbar, select "Action
Buttons", then click the top left button, then draw your button the size you
want. That way the Action Settings dialog box comes up immediately to set
the hyperlink option. After setting this, you can right-click the button
and select "Add text" and type something like "Return". You can also
right-click and select "Format Autoshape", click the "Colors and Lines" TAB
and set the fill color to what you want and the line color to "No Line" (my
preference).

Hope this helps!
 
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Hello,

I'm glad that you have found the workaround for combining portrait and
landscape slides into a slide show. The ability to combine both landscape
and portrait slides in a single presentation file is one of those requested
capabilities that has been difficult to justify because we haven't received
enough (or compelling) reasons for the on-screen slide show scenario.
Basically, we haven't received good arguments as to why displaying a
portrait slide on a landscape display/projector is any better than simply
placing your "portrait" content into a landscape slide (retaining the
aspect ratio of the content while sizing it so that it touches the bottom
and top of the slide) and then displaying the landscape slide on a
landscape display/projector. They look the same. Perhaps a better
recommendation in this scenario is NOT to allow mixed portrait/landscape
slides in the same presentation but, INSTEAD, provide better slide show
tools for viewing portrait content in slide show (scrolling, magnify, etc.)
at it's original size instead of shrunk down to fit the slide area?

However, we have received some good justifications for combining mixed
landscape and portrait slides in presentations intended primarily for
printing (since printers have the capability to rotate the output on a
per-page basis), but as always, more feedback and justification in
customers own words would really help us to understand under which
scenarios (print, display, etc.) you are looking for support for mixed
orientation slides and what your expectations are of the experience when
showing or printing these types of presentations (does it have to be a
single presentation, or will multiple presentations with improved
presentation "chaining" features be sufficient, what else?)

If you (or anyone else reading this message) think that PowerPoint should
provide support for mixed orientation slides in same presentation
(onscreen? print? both?), or features for better handling of naturally
"portrait" content in a landscape slide show, or better features for
chaining multiple presentations together (regardless of each presentations
orientation), don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

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