Hi Everyone,



I am wondering if there is a way using VBA or with a free add in to resize the slide minature window. The biggest reason I want to do this is when I select a large group of shapes and then change the color I want to see what it looks like without the placeholders around the shapes. I know I can just click off and then the placeholders will automatically go away but I want to be able to change the colors. Look it over and keep changing the color until I find something I like then un select. Any ideas?

You can drag the right border of the thumbnail pane to the right but there's a limit to how big it will go.

A trick to get a larger view is to change the slide size in Page Set Up

Double the standard sizes to keep the ratio the same so if it's 25.4 x 19.05 (cm) make it 50.8 x 38.1

It will still show OK and you can put the sizes back if you need to print

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I like this idea. I was thinking of the best workaround is to use the view show from current slide (Shift F5) however when I am checking it I dont want it to advance to the next slide automatically so I simply change the slide transition back to "on click" after I am done viewing the slide in show mode I press ESC and go back. Everything works great but I would like a macro that would do this and then change the slide transition back to "automatically after" after I press ESC.