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PowerPoint question for you…
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Post 1 made on Sunday December 4, 2016 at 16:10
tomciara
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So a church is producing slides on PowerPoint in 16X9 format. The windows 7 professional computer is seemingly in 4X3 Mode, and will not display them properly. She uses a nearby Mac mini, and they display normally.

I believe she has gone into the display settings on windows 7 to change the aspect ratio, with no apparent change. I have not used PowerPoint, so I am wondering if PowerPoint has its own settings? The slides are being made up on a different computer and brought in on a thumb drive. Maybe the local version of PowerPoint needs a settings tweak?

Thanks for your help!
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Post 2 made on Monday December 5, 2016 at 11:38
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Powerpoint will automatically display on the computer in the format that a presentation was created. No setting required.
You can set Powerpoint to create slides in either 16:9 (which is now the default) or 4x3. You can convert from one to the other, but this tends to mess up the layout of slides a bit.
In my experience any issues with format tend to come from projector settings... are there settings on the projector to change the format? Usually a 4:3 projector will show 16.9 slides letterboxed.
Hope that may be some help...
OP | Post 3 made on Monday December 5, 2016 at 13:07
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Thank you for clarifying that, much appreciated.

Found a scaler in line defaulting to 4x3 and now they are golden.
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