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Is there a way to determine the size of an individual
slide in a PowerPoint presentation?
I am on a computer running Windows 2000, and PowerPoint
from Office 2000.
TIA.
 
By default, they are 10"X7.5" for On-screen Show. But, you have a number of
options by clicking on file, Page Setup

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Is there a way to determine the size of an individual
slide in a PowerPoint presentation?
I am on a computer running Windows 2000, and PowerPoint
from Office 2000.
TIA.
 
Jacquie said:
Is there a way to determine the size of an individual
slide in a PowerPoint presentation?
I am on a computer running Windows 2000, and PowerPoint
from Office 2000.
Click to expand...

If you look at File/Page Setup, you can see your slide size. All slides in a
presentation will be the same size.
 
You may be interested in this excerpt from a book that
Julie Terberg and I have written specically for healthacre
staff, but this may help explain this to you:

PowerPoint defaults to a resolution of 720 x 540
(approximately the same as digital video). In PowerPoint,
select File>Page Setup and you'll see the page is set to
10" wide by 7.5" (25.4cm x 19.05cm.) The problem with
this dimension is that PowerPoint will scale your
presentation visuals either up or down, depending on your
current Display Setting. (The settings of your monitor)

So how do you fix this? Using 1024 x 768 for this
example, divide each dimension by 72 ppi (pixels per inch,
screen resolution.) 1024 divided by 72 = 14.22"
(36.19cm). Enter this for Page width. 768 divided by 72
= 10.66" (27.08cm). Enter this for Page height. Your
PowerPoint file is now perfectly set for a 1024 x 768
display.

[Note: You can save these settings, and every time you
open PowerPoint, the blank template will already be
formatted for your display. Select File-Save As¬, choose
Design Template as the file type, and type "Blank" as the
filename (the .pot extension will be added automatically.
Try it out: select File>Close, then File>New,
choose "Blank" as the template. Select File>Page Setup,
and note that your page setup has been updated.]

Why should you change the Page Setup? If you don't resize
for your target display, nothing you drop into PowerPoint
will be to the exact scale. When sizing images for
presentation purposes, your dimensions should not exceed
the display settings - ie the projector.

Hope this helps

Terry
 
That's good information!
But, I guess I didn't ask my question very clearly...What
I want to know is if there is a way to tell the number of
bytes/kb of an individual slide. I know how to tell how
large the file is, but am wondering if it's possible to
find out the size of a single slide.
Thanks for any help.
jacquie
-----Original Message-----
You may be interested in this excerpt from a book that
Julie Terberg and I have written specically for healthacre
staff, but this may help explain this to you:

PowerPoint defaults to a resolution of 720 x 540
(approximately the same as digital video). In PowerPoint,
select File>Page Setup and you'll see the page is set to
10" wide by 7.5" (25.4cm x 19.05cm.) The problem with
this dimension is that PowerPoint will scale your
presentation visuals either up or down, depending on your
current Display Setting. (The settings of your monitor)

So how do you fix this? Using 1024 x 768 for this
example, divide each dimension by 72 ppi (pixels per inch,
screen resolution.) 1024 divided by 72 = 14.22"
(36.19cm). Enter this for Page width. 768 divided by 72
= 10.66" (27.08cm). Enter this for Page height. Your
PowerPoint file is now perfectly set for a 1024 x 768
display.

[Note: You can save these settings, and every time you
open PowerPoint, the blank template will already be
formatted for your display. Select File-Save As¬, choose
Design Template as the file type, and type "Blank" as the
filename (the .pot extension will be added automatically.
Try it out: select File>Close, then File>New,
choose "Blank" as the template. Select File>Page Setup,
and note that your page setup has been updated.]

Why should you change the Page Setup? If you don't resize
for your target display, nothing you drop into PowerPoint
will be to the exact scale. When sizing images for
presentation purposes, your dimensions should not exceed
the display settings - ie the projector.

Hope this helps

Terry

-----Original Message-----
Is there a way to determine the size of an individual
slide in a PowerPoint presentation?
I am on a computer running Windows 2000, and PowerPoint
from Office 2000.
TIA.
.
Click to expand...
.
Click to expand...
 
That would be difficult (impossible?) because some parts of a slide are
shared. For example, if you copy a picture from one slide to another,
the picture is only stored in the file once. You would have to delete
both copies of the picture to reduce the size by the size of that
picture.
--David

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Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/
 
Interesting stuff, but you'd be wise to specify the version of PPT you're
talking about. The default resolution and even the internal cm to inch
conversion factor (!) vary depending on which version of PPT you use.

The 720x540 resolution is what you get when you save as bitmap from some
versions of PPT but I don't quite understand where it comes into play
otherwise.

No matter what size you choose for the slide pages, PPT will scale the slide to
fill the current display rez as you say, but so long as the proportions are the
same, that's all that matters.

1024/768 = 1.33333333...
10/7.5 = 1.33333333...

By bringing the resolution, you only complicate things, IMO.

You may be interested in this excerpt from a book that
Julie Terberg and I have written specically for healthacre
staff, but this may help explain this to you:

PowerPoint defaults to a resolution of 720 x 540
(approximately the same as digital video). In PowerPoint,
select File>Page Setup and you'll see the page is set to
10" wide by 7.5" (25.4cm x 19.05cm.) The problem with
this dimension is that PowerPoint will scale your
presentation visuals either up or down, depending on your
current Display Setting. (The settings of your monitor)

So how do you fix this? Using 1024 x 768 for this
example, divide each dimension by 72 ppi (pixels per inch,
screen resolution.) 1024 divided by 72 = 14.22"
(36.19cm). Enter this for Page width. 768 divided by 72
= 10.66" (27.08cm). Enter this for Page height. Your
PowerPoint file is now perfectly set for a 1024 x 768
display.

[Note: You can save these settings, and every time you
open PowerPoint, the blank template will already be
formatted for your display. Select File-Save As¬, choose
Design Template as the file type, and type "Blank" as the
filename (the .pot extension will be added automatically.
Try it out: select File>Close, then File>New,
choose "Blank" as the template. Select File>Page Setup,
and note that your page setup has been updated.]

Why should you change the Page Setup? If you don't resize
for your target display, nothing you drop into PowerPoint
will be to the exact scale. When sizing images for
presentation purposes, your dimensions should not exceed
the display settings - ie the projector.

Hope this helps

Terry
-----Original Message-----
Is there a way to determine the size of an individual
slide in a PowerPoint presentation?
I am on a computer running Windows 2000, and PowerPoint
from Office 2000.
TIA.
.
Click to expand...
Click to expand...

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Is there a way to determine the size of an individual
slide in a PowerPoint presentation?
I am on a computer running Windows 2000, and PowerPoint
from Office 2000.
Click to expand...

Not universally, no. There are ways of predicting how much different types of
content will add to a presentation's file size if you put it on a slide, but
you can't really tell directly.

You could always delete the slide, save the presentation under a new name
(after making sure that Fast Saves is OFF) and compare the two sizes. No.
Better turn off fast saves, save the pres, THEN delete the slide and save again
under a new name. Better. ;-)

You've asked a pretty general question but it sounds like you have a more
specific problem you want to solve. Care to elaborate?

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