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Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / July 2007Crash course help?
As a living example of the Peter Principle, I've been volunteered to throw together a PPT show of photographs for an event right around the corner ( by that I mean no time to study and become proficient at this new-to-me program). I can see how to add a digital photo to a slide and make it full screen. But I'm going to have to be scanning lots of photo prints and adding them as well. Is there a "resolution" or some scanner settings I should use to get the optimal file size for PowerPoint without creating huge files? Any other tips to make this idiotproof? I'd appreciate any and all suggestions. Hi, For on-screen presenting purposes 150 dpi should be adequate. For high quality printing purposes I would use at least 300 dpi (takes more disc space, slower to work with). If you want to print enlarged copies after scanning use 1200 dpi or higher. If you have a lot of pictures and you want to automatically put one picture per slide automatically scaled to the slide size then check out my add-in: http://www.agentjim.com/MVP/PowerPoint/ppt2004.htm -Jim Quoting from "tudball" <dbartosic@ohiotruckingassn.org>, in article 1185198062.879785.28280@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com, on [DATE: > As a living example of the Peter Principle, I've been volunteered to > throw together a PPT show of photographs for an event right around the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > PowerPoint without creating huge files? Any other tips to make this > idiotproof? I'd appreciate any and all suggestions.  SignatureJim Gordon Mac MVP MVPs are not Microsoft Employees MVP info http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ > As a living example of the Peter Principle, I've been volunteered to > throw together a PPT show of photographs for an event right around the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > PowerPoint without creating huge files? Any other tips to make this > idiotproof? I'd appreciate any and all suggestions. Assuming this'll be shown via digital projector, find out the max resolution it's capable of (assume 1024x768 if you can't find specific information) and use that as your target file size. This will probably mean setting your scanner software to talk to you in pixels rather than inches or dpi, but that's ok. The other approach is to scan 'em all at fairly large sizes then use a photo editing program to "downsample" them to the final desired resolution (ideally in some kind of batch mode, if the program permits it). To insert the photos, use Insert, Picture, From File rather than copy/paste/click/drag/or/like/that ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Thanks Jim & Steve, I think I can handle this now. And I'm going for the add-in. Dave > In article <1185198062.879785.28...@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>, Tudball > wrote: [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ |
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