Advantages of Widescreen PowerPoint Presentations
If you show your presentation on a widescreen monitor, set this up before you add any information to your slides. Making a change to the setup of the slides at a later time causes your slides to be stretched and distorted on the screen.
Other advantages to using widescreen format are:
Uses all available space on your screenIs the newest presentation display of choiceMore room for your information on the slideLess chance of your slide looking cluttered
Set Up for Widescreen in PowerPoint 2010 and 2007
There are two different widescreen size ratios available in PowerPoint 2010 and 2007. The choice you make depends on your particular monitor. The most commonly chosen widescreen ratio is 16:9.
Choose the Widescreen Size Format in PowerPoint 2003
Setting your presentation up for widescreen success in PowerPoint 2003 is just as easy as any other version.
PowerPoint Fits Widescreen Presentations to Your Screen
You can create a widescreen PowerPoint presentation even when you don’t have a widescreen monitor or a projector that works in widescreen. PowerPoint formats your presentation for the available space on the screen, just like your regular television shows a widescreen movie in letterbox style, with the black bars on the top and bottom of the screen. If your presentations will be reused in the years to come, create them in the widescreen format. Keep in mind that converting a presentation to widescreen at a later date causes the text and images to be stretched and distorted. Avoid these pitfalls and have only minimal changes to make at a later date if you start at the beginning in a widescreen format.
