Powerpoint Size Frustration
July 6, 2015 6:16 PM Subscribe
I am attempting to make a powerpoint 'game' (a tutorial that should be fun) using screenshots of Outlook 365. I cannot seem to size my screenshots to the correct size to work with powerpoint. I am sure I am missing something but I have no idea what.
So I'm working on a project at work to teach 600 people how to use the most basic tools of Outlook 365 as a game. Oh and the first leg of this is due tomorrow at 3pm.
My goal is to take a screenshot of Outlook 365, split into 9 equally sized squares (so you can click different parts of the 'screen' individually) and then move these into Ppt so that I can work with them.
The issue I'm having is with resolution. I'm struggling on finding the right resolution to either set my monitor to before I take the screenshots, or what to size the screenshots to once I've taken them at my normal resolution.
I read somewhere that the default resolution of PPT is 1024 x 768. Yet when I change my resolution to that it doesn't actually help. The screenshot isn't the right size to fit natively in PPT without resizing. And I want to do the resizing in GIMP so I can also cut the images into squares.
Is there a different resolution that PPT uses? I know I have the option in the Design to make the powerpoint 4:3 or 16:9. That seems to be useless. We'll be presenting these (hopefully) on tablets, so widescreen would be fine for that.
I hope this makes sense. I hate that I'm wasting a MeFi question on this but I'm so lost. (And I'm supposed to be the computer person, yikes) Please hope me.
So I'm working on a project at work to teach 600 people how to use the most basic tools of Outlook 365 as a game. Oh and the first leg of this is due tomorrow at 3pm.
My goal is to take a screenshot of Outlook 365, split into 9 equally sized squares (so you can click different parts of the 'screen' individually) and then move these into Ppt so that I can work with them.
The issue I'm having is with resolution. I'm struggling on finding the right resolution to either set my monitor to before I take the screenshots, or what to size the screenshots to once I've taken them at my normal resolution.
I read somewhere that the default resolution of PPT is 1024 x 768. Yet when I change my resolution to that it doesn't actually help. The screenshot isn't the right size to fit natively in PPT without resizing. And I want to do the resizing in GIMP so I can also cut the images into squares.
Is there a different resolution that PPT uses? I know I have the option in the Design to make the powerpoint 4:3 or 16:9. That seems to be useless. We'll be presenting these (hopefully) on tablets, so widescreen would be fine for that.
I hope this makes sense. I hate that I'm wasting a MeFi question on this but I'm so lost. (And I'm supposed to be the computer person, yikes) Please hope me.
For widescreen (16:9) PowerPoint docs, I set up my Photoshop files at 1920 x 1080.
Also, is what you're doing in Gimp possible to just do in PowerPoint - i.e. place the image and crop in different ways?
posted by Uncle Glendinning at 6:44 PM on July 6, 2015
Also, is what you're doing in Gimp possible to just do in PowerPoint - i.e. place the image and crop in different ways?
posted by Uncle Glendinning at 6:44 PM on July 6, 2015
Response by poster: I totally wasted a question. 10 minutes after I posted this I figured it out. Thank you Glendinning though, for your help.
posted by motioncityshakespeare at 8:02 PM on July 6, 2015
posted by motioncityshakespeare at 8:02 PM on July 6, 2015
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posted by motioncityshakespeare at 6:20 PM on July 6, 2015