Portrait and Horizontal slides in same slideshow

[dab1477]

I'm sure this can be done....



I want to have Portrait and Horizontal slides within the same slideshow. I attempted to change the slides within the slideshow without success. When I change one slide, all slides change. How to I present a slide show where I have both portrait and horizontal slides showing?

Thanks
dab1477

[JohnWilson]

You can't. But what would you expect to see on the screen? Unless you are rotating the projector or monitor the height is fixed.

[vswingfield]

You can, however, hyperlink one presentation to another.

Linking to a presentation that is in portrait format will work. Be sure that you do not have PowerPoint set to end with black slide. After the last slide in portrait format, you will return to the previous presentation, presumably in landscape.

But, as JohnWilson pointed out, the projection will not be changing.

I was shown this method in a PowerPoint class and still use hyperlinking presentations a lot. Usually creating an agenda for meeting that links to all the speakers' presentations for seamless meetings. The instructor had linked to a portrait presentations to make a point. It was generally considered an interesting but essentially useless example.

You can always put portrait formatted material in landscape PowerPoint slides. The medium is essentially landscape, though.

[JohnWilson]

never been a fan of the hyperlink method. It's a pain to control and the portrait slides look much smaller.

You might want to read this if you have a real need to do this.

[vswingfield]

Originally Posted by JohnWilson

never been a fan of the hyperlink method. It's a pain to control...

You're right about that. As I said, I mainly use it for longer meeting agendas, such as conferences with several speakers, so we're not fumbling around with closing one presentation, searching for, and opening the next.

I have found that hyperlinking worked fine in Win XP with Office 2003. I was never able to get it to work at all in Vista, but we skipped that version. It works again in Win 7 and 2010. (Also works on Lion and Mac Office 2011, but that's really a minor point, we're a Windows shop at work.) Also, like I mentioned earlier, you have to be sure that you don't have slideshows set to end with black slide, which is the default.

Originally Posted by JohnWilson

... and the portrait slides look much smaller.

You might want to read this if you have a real need to do this.

I heartily agree with you here! Just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should. I was replying to the OP about a way that you could do it.

PowerPoint is essentially a landscape medium. No matter what you do to the slides, the screen on which you are presenting stays the same.