Re: Slide Show too big for display

From: Geetesh Bajaj (geeteshREMOVECAPS_at_poboxes.com)
Date: 05/10/04 

Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:18:47 +0530

Some laptops can go up to higher resolutions but they only display a part of
that resolution (other parts of the resolution/screen can be seen by moving
the mouse towards that direction) - would that be the case? 

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"Karen" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> A colleague of mine created a slide show using some
> templates I have set up in England and then presented this
> in New York, running it off a lap top.
>
> Unfortunately the slides turned out to be too big for the
> screen so that a good third of each of the slides was lost
> to the audience (same goes for looking at them on the
> laptop that they were on).
>
> This has never happened before, and we have presented
> presentations across the world with these templates. Also
> everybody else who presented had no problems with their
> display.
>
> First thing I checked was that the presentation page set
> up was the same as the template - template page set up is
> Width 24 and Height 18 - and it was.  Have tested the
> presenation on laptops here in England and everything is
> okay. Unfortunately the original lap top is not available
> to do any tests on.
>
> Someone has mentioned that maybe our template is optimized
> to be displayed at a certain resolution???
>
> This problem happened a few weeks ago and I am supposed to
> give some advice on what went wrong .
>
> I wondered if anyone else had come across this problem
> before?
>
> Thankyou very much
> Any input would be appreciated.

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