How to Use Portrait and Landscape Slide Orientation in a Presentation?
Posted by admin at 9:04 pm. Filed under: Tips on Presentation
When you create a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, all slides you insert to the presentation is of landscape orientation, by default. If you require, you can modify this orientation to portrait. However, you can follow a simple trick to include slides of both types of orientation as a single presentation. To do so you need to follow 5 simple steps:
1. Move slides of one orientation to a separate file
The first step is to move files of which you want to be of one type of orientation, for example, portrait to a separate presentation file. Move the slides, which you want to be in portrait orientation to a new presentation file. To do so:
1.Open the presentation file in Normal view.
2.Select the slides that you want to be in portrait orientation from the Slides tabbed pane in the Normal view.
3.Select Edit Cut option to cut the selected slides.
4.Select File New option to open a new blank presentation.
5.Select Edit Paste option in the new presentation file to paste the cut slides to it.
2. Change the orientation of slides in new presentation.
The second step for this task is to modify the orientation of the slides you want to be portrait. To do so:
1.Open the presentation file that consists of the slides that you want to be in portrait orientation.
2.Select File Page Setup option to open the Page Setup dialog box as shown in the following figure:
Page Setup Dialog Box
This figure shows the Page Setup dialog box with options to modify the orientation of slides from landscape to portrait.
1. Select the Portrait radio button under Orientation from the Slides frame.
2. Click the OK button to apply the selected orientation to the slides.
3. Save the new presentation.
3. Create a hyperlink from original presentation to new presentation
The third step of this process is to create a hyperlink from the original presentation containing landscape slides to the new presentation containing portrait slides. This hyperlink will transfer control from the original presentation to the new presentation. To create this hyperlink:
1.Open the original presentation.
2.Select the text or object on which you want to create the hyperlink.
3.Select Slide Show Action Settings option to open the Action Settings dialog box as shown in the following figure:
Action Settings Dialog Box
This figure shows the Action Settings dialog box that allows you to create hyperlinks.
1. Click the Hyperlink to radio button and select Other PowerPoint Presentation from the drop-down menu. This will open the Hyperlink to Other PowerPoint presentation dialog box.
2. Browse the new presentation in the Hyperlink to Other PowerPoint presentation dialog box and click the OK button. This will return control to the Action Settings dialog box.
3. Click the OK button in the Action Settings dialog box to create the hyperlink.
4. Create hyperlink from new presentation back to the original presentation.
The fourth step to this process is to create a hyperlink in the new presentation that will allow you to transfer control back to your original presentation. To do so:
1. Open the new presentation that you have created.
2. Select the text or object on which you want to create a hyperlink.
3. Select Slide Show Action Settings option to open the Action Settings dialog box.
4. Click the Hyperlink to radio button and select Other PowerPoint Presentation from the drop-down menu. This will open the Hyperlink to Other PowerPoint presentation dialog box.
5. Browse the original presentation in the Hyperlink to Other PowerPoint presentation dialog box and click the OK button. This will return control to the Action Settings dialog box.
6. Click the OK button in the Action Settings dialog box to create a hyperlink from new presentation to original presentation.
5. Save both the presentations.
The fifth and last step of the process is to save both the presentation files to update the changes. You will need both presentation files to present this slide show. Also both presentations must be kept at the same directory locations that you used to create the hyperlinks.
TJ
