Linking landscape and portrait presentations

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Graphogoddess

I've read the suggested tutorial and tried it about a thousand times, but for
whatever reason, it ain't working for me. I'm using Powerpoint 2007 with
Vista.

Having carefully followed the instructions, I don't know what to do next.
And, btw, in PP2007, right-clicking does not bring up "Custom Animation", so
I select Show Linked Presentation, which did indeed bring up the first
presentation. However, the problem comes in when I want to go to the second
one (the portrait pres.). Linking back to the first presentation brings up
the first slide, rather than where I want it (slide 8). Any suggestions? This
is pretty urgent.
 
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Ute Simon

The easiest way would be to insert slides with black background in your
landscape presentation and insert your portrait content on them. The effect
on the screen will be the same.

Best regards,
Ute
 
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Graphogoddess

Thanks for the quick response, but I'm not understanding how that would work.
If the slide is wider than it's high, and the slide I want to insert is an 8
x 11, part of the important information is cut off.
 
G

Graphogoddess

Steve,
That doesn't work for me. What I'm showing needs to be full-size. I'm
presenting samples of handwriting and when they are shrunk, I am unable to
illustrate the important points. That's why I need both portrait and
landscape, and since so many people seem able to do it successfully by
linking, I'm trying to figure out why I'm not being successful with it since
"upgrading" to PP 2007.
 
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Graphogoddess

Ute,
Unless I'm completely dense, this is still a matter of squashing my portrait
slides to fit a landscape slide. I know how to do that, but the effect is not
good for my presentation.

Is it just me, or is linking presentations no longer available in 2007? I
did it with varied success in 2003.
 
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Graphogoddess

One of us isn't understanding the other, and I fully admit it's probably me,
your patronizing comment notwithstanding : ) But the fact is, if I make a
portrait slide fit a landscape slide, keeping the image at the size I need,
the whole thing won't fit on the slide. Reducing the image is not going to
help me.

Clearly, I will have to find some other workaround.
 
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Graphogoddess

I probably didn't explain it properly. It's not a matter of the maximum
height, it's how large I can display an entire image. If I shrink an 8 1/2 x
11 sample of handwriting on a landscape slide the handwriting is much smaller
than if I put the it on a portrait slide.

I was able to accomplish what I wanted (mixing landscape and portrait) in
PP2003 and I can't in 2007. Since my 6 hour lecture is on Saturday in another
state, I've decided to just use portrait for all slides. It's frustrating,
though, as it's "supposed to work."
 
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