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tzvikei
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

Export to PowerPoint (Preview) feedback

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Anonymous
Not applicable
8 years ago

Hey Guys!

 

Anyone made an export successfully with portrait orientation?

 

I have my report set up with portrait - roughly A4 size, and the export is messed up.

 

Any ideas for a workaround?

 

Thanks!

 

Máté

  • tabar's avatar
    tabar
    Helper I
    8 years ago

    Hi Anonymous,

     

    I do the same (A4 format). There are 2 ways of workaround. 1 is that you define a template with your needed format (size. background, etc.) and save it as template (.potx / .potm / .pot) and every time after export just copy all SLIDES and paste them into your template. The other possibility is to change the master format in the same file. Here the Tutorial

     

    Regards,

    Sina

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      8 years ago

      Hi there, thanks for the feedback!

       

      Yeah I could re-orient the slides, no problem, but it still messes up the whole report (pics that were outside the boundaries of the original side not re-orienting with the rest, text boxes messed up) and even when I save the template and set it as default, powerpoint opens it in landscape mode..