Printing PowerPoint: Slide size v. Printer Page size. If you need to do more than just print basic presentations to standard size paper, this little tutorial will help you understand how PowerPoint interacts with printers and page sizes.
I received a PowerPoint presentation which when printed in 2 slides per pagehandout format displays slides of larger size than normal printouts ofsimilar format. I tried replicating this in my other presentaions by changingthe page setup to Letter Size (as was the size in the other presentation) butthe prinout size in the said format didn't change much. Choosing the 'Scaleto Fit Paper' gives only a marginal improvement in the printout size.
On thecontrary, choosing the same option in the said presentation reduces the sizeof the slides in the handout prints. The only other difference I have noticedin this presentation is that the ruler in the 'Handout Master' view shows alarger page size (approx 13'x8'). If there was a way to increase the pagesize of the Handout Master, maybe the results could be replicated. I havesearched the PowerPoint help as well as the internet but haven't found anyhints on this topic. At the moment I am using a shortcut to replicate theresult by using the said presentation as a template and copying my slidesinto it. But I want to know how this effect is created in the first place.I'll be glad to send the above mentioned presentation to anyone interestedin seeing it.Looking forward to your replies.muitnepEcho S23.12.04 5:05.
PPT doesn't allow you to change the size of the slide images on its handoutpages. Could it be that the size difference you're seeing is the differencebetween printing handouts with 2 slides per page vs, say, 3 slides per page?(The 3/page are much smaller.)The handout page size is tied to the slide size. You can see that underFile/Page Setup. What size is the page listed as there? The author of thepresentation may have specified a custom size.So I don't really know how the person would have provided you with a PPTfile that would print handouts with larger slide images. (Sure wish I did,though, as that would be very handy to know!)Here are some thoughts for your other presentations:If you go to File/Print and click Properties next to the printer name, youmay be able to set your page size to A4 or something. That's a little biggerthan letter sized paper, but I don't know that it will affect your slideimage size much.
Perhaps you can set a custom page size there, though? Oh,B4 paper would be about 13x10.Oh, another thought would be that you could print to a post-script printer.Most of these would allow you to do 'n-up' printing. You could choose toprint 'slides' instead of handouts and then use the post-script settings todo 2-up 'slides' as opposed to just printing handouts with 2/page. (See thedifference?) I don't know that that would actually change the size mucheither, although I haven't tried it. Just thinking aloud.File/Send to Word will give you a table with slide images that you canresize. That is usually the workaround when one needs to print handouts withlarger slide images.Shyam's Handout Wizard is a great add-in for this type of thing also.-Echo MS PPT MVP'muitnep' wrote in messagenews:[email protected] Dilworth23.12.04 5:13. The handout master formatting is not user controllable.
However, there isan excellent add-in from Shyam that does everything you want (and maybemore). See Hand-out Wizard:-Bill DilworthMicrosoft PPT MVP TeamPlease spend a few minutes checking vestprog2@out This link will yahoo.answer most of our questions, before comyou think to ask them.Change org to com to defuse anti-spam,ant-virus, anti-nuisance misdirection.' Muitnep' wrote in messagenews:[email protected].