Widescreen machines' configuration with PowerPoint

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How do I configure my widescreen HP Compaq note book PC
and its resolution with Microsoft PowerPoint in slide
show mode i.e. getting rid of the black strips on the
side and automatic configuration with a beamer/projector?
This might be similar to the Smart mode technology with
wide screen televisions that automatically configures
between the wide 16:9 and traditional 4:3 broadcasts.
HP confirmed that it is a Microsoft issue and nothing
they can do from their side
 
How do I configure my widescreen HP Compaq note book PC
and its resolution with Microsoft PowerPoint in slide
show mode i.e. getting rid of the black strips on the
side and automatic configuration with a beamer/projector?
This might be similar to the Smart mode technology with
wide screen televisions that automatically configures
between the wide 16:9 and traditional 4:3 broadcasts.
HP confirmed that it is a Microsoft issue and nothing
they can do from their side
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Make screenshow fill a wide-screen display
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00566.htm
 
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Hello,

Why not just use a page setup (File -> Page Setup...) of 16 inches wide by
9 inches tall. Presentations using this page size should appear correctly
when viewed on a 16:9 display running at a resolution where the
width/height resolution ratio is also 16:9.

Of course, if you make this aspect ratio change to an existing
presentation, PowerPoint will, necessarily, resize and reposition items
relative to the new center coordinates of the slides. Since PowerPoint
cannot distort text it can only be resized proportionally (even though the
slide has been resized non-proportionally) so there will be times when you
will have to manually re-adjust items containing text after change the
aspect ratio of slides in a Presentation.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions as to how
PowerPoint should handle non-proportional changes to the aspect ratio of
slides or other suggestions for how to handle wide-screen format
displays/presentations, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN
WORDS, please) to Microsoft at:

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

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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