Vertically oriented slides in middle of presentation

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Can anyone let me know if there's a way to have a couple vertical slides in
the middle of a presentation that is mainly horizontal (landscape) slides.
Page setup seems to change the entire presentation. Thanks!
 
DH said:
Can anyone let me know if there's a way to have a couple vertical slides in
the middle of a presentation that is mainly horizontal (landscape) slides.
Page setup seems to change the entire presentation. Thanks!
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No, but there are a ton of workarounds.
http://www.echosvoice.com/multipletemplates.htm lists them.

I have to ask, though, do you need this for printing or for display? If
it's for display, you're still limited by the height of the slide/screen
-- whether the content is vertical or horizontal. It's not as if you can
switch the screen to a vertical height in the middle of the
presentation. So I usually just put my vertically oriented stuff onto
the horizontal slide, size it to the height of the slide, and set the
slide background to black.
 
The short answer is, no. Within each separate PowerPoint presentation the
slide orientation is fixed.


But, you can show portrait oriented pictures within the framework of a
landscape oriented slide, so it fosters the question of, why do you need
this? The projector or monitor will not be changing their orientation, will
they? You won't be turning the monitor on it's side in the middle of the
show, right? Only the picture, not the projector, will be changing, or so I
would assume. Please let me know where I am mistaken, so I can better
understand your need and suggest better work-around.

Work-around 1:
Link presentations with dissimilar orientations.

Work-around 2:
Insert portrait oriented picture into a landscape oriented slide, leaving
unused areas blank.


Please post back with your situation, so that we can better answer your
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Thanks for the quick responses (to Echo S as well). I understand what you're
saying... If the landscape view is taking up most of the screen, then
putting in a slide with a portrait view will be a problem, as the top and
bottom will get cut off... Right? The problem is the couple slides with the
portrait view are "clinical carepaths" with a fair amount of text on them,
making them already marginal to show in a presentation (although I need to
do it to briefly run through them). Putting them in landscape will "shrink"
the text even further, but I suspect that may be the only option....

One other question... How do I "link" presentations? I have about 6 topics,
each in a different ppt file, but would like to just be able to go through
them from start of number 1 to end of number 6....
 
DH said:
Thanks for the quick responses (to Echo S as well). I understand what you're
saying... If the landscape view is taking up most of the screen, then
putting in a slide with a portrait view will be a problem, as the top and
bottom will get cut off... Right?
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Well, yeah, if you leave it taller than the slide it will. On-screen
show setup (File/Page Setup) is the same proportion (4 wide, 3 tall) as
most projection screens where you'd display your presentation.
The problem is the couple slides with the
portrait view are "clinical carepaths" with a fair amount of text on them,
making them already marginal to show in a presentation (although I need to
do it to briefly run through them). Putting them in landscape will "shrink"
the text even further, but I suspect that may be the only option....
Click to expand...

Yeah, it will shrink the text further, but it really is your only option
-- unless, of course, you tell your audience to all tilt their heads to
the left. :-)

Actually, what I've often done in this situation is slap the whole thing
on the slide and then animate in larger pieces so the audience can
actually *see* the relevant stuff. Of course, that necessitates creating
some additional images, but it's a nice effect -- one your audience will
appreciate.
One other question... How do I "link" presentations? I have about 6 topics,
each in a different ppt file, but would like to just be able to go through
them from start of number 1 to end of number 6....
Click to expand...

Basically, you can use an action setting to click a button to initiate
the next presentation, but I think TAJ's linking method might serve
better here. See
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtutorials.htm
 
Hi there

As far as I know by design (with the product at default)
you cannot do that, and have to hyperlink between the
different files (portrait to landscape to portrait again).

It's a work-around, should work.

Regards

CJ
 
Just a side thought ...

Orienting your 35 mm film slides in a Kodak Carousel tray for
portrait, landscape, or even mirror-image projection was not only a
given, it was an important requirement for even casual photographers'
presentations. The only downside was the all-too-often incorrect
orientation.

This coming June, Eastman Kodak will discontinue production of said
projectors:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/10/27/a_projector_slides_off_into_the_sunset/

Progress has its small prices.

FWIW,
Tony

Tony Ramos
Specialist in PowerPoint Presentation Design
http://tonyramos.com
Home of "Tony's PowerPoint Weblog" - the web's first blog about PPT
 
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