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Need Help with PowerPoint

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Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Friday, January 14, 2005 - 11:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Anyone out there familiar with PowerPoint and can tell me how to scan a document and insert the page into my presentation?

What I'd like to do is scan an 8/5 x 11 sheet of paper and make it a slide.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your input!

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 1:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Luvmyjrt: You should be able to scan the document to a graphic image file compatible with Powerpoint and then insert it as a picture from a file. Keep in mind that the dimensions of the screen display for a presentation will work better for a document that is laid out in landscape mode.

Hope this helps.

Luvmyjrt
Member

09-18-2003

Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 6:04 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dra: Thanks for the tip. I will be trying it out tomorrow. Hope you'll check in if I run into any probs. Your the best!

Eeyoreslament
Member

07-20-2003

Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I love PP. I do every school presentation in PP. My bio teacher this year uses PP, and email, but other than that, she says she is a "luddite". So it's kind of funny, in class, she'll be trying to navigate, and we/I have to give her hints, because she really isn't that good at PP navigation. She has essentially created Word documents, and just inserted then into slides. hahaha!!

Karuuna
Member

08-31-2000

Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 12:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Keep in mind that your 11x8.5 will need to reduce to 10 x 7.5 for PPT. That reduction isn't exact so you'll have to do some trimming to make it fit. I find saving as a Jpeg image works best. It's best if you can change the size in your scanning software, PPT has limited ability to crop images.

Also, I assume it's a "landscape" image, rather than vertical, or you'll have even bigger problems.

Finally, you don't need more than 150 dpi resolution for ppt, especially since you'll be making the image smaller to fit the slide.