Office Go Zoom Zoom Zoom in the Room Room Room

July 14, 2008 1:46 PM

Why would a laptop+conference projection thing make MS office docs expand?

During a meeting, my boss was having trouble with his laptop. It was hooked up to the in house projector. Anytime he would open an MS Office document (he tried Powerpoint, Excel and Word, 2003 I think) it would expand to the maximum zoom, but it would scale up through each step, like someone was dragging the zoom bar. If he dragged it back to small, it would just zoom back in. He mentioned that it had happened before, but only in this one room.

Anyone know whats up with that?

posted by ian1977 to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

It sounds as though the keys for "zoom in" were stuck on. Did he plug in any sort of keyboard or mouse or other USB device - maybe a "presentation" remote control that was included with the projector? If so, that might be the culprit.
posted by mbrubeck at 1:53 PM on July 14, 2008

Response by poster: Ooh! The 'presentation' remote sounds like a possibility. I will check into that. Any other possibilities?
posted by ian1977 at 1:57 PM on July 14, 2008

I had the exact same issue. For some reason uninstalling MS Intellitype (installed for my docking station keyboard) made the issue go away.
posted by topher74 at 2:51 PM on July 14, 2008

It's almost certainly the Ms Intellitype. I've seen this issue dozens of times over the last 2 years, as people start to give their big presentations on the projector. I think you can change the MS Intellitype options from Start->Program to fix this without uninstalling the whole thing,
posted by Balna Watya at 5:46 PM on July 14, 2008