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Widescreen Format in PowerPoint Presentations

By Wendy Russell, About.com

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Choose the Widescreen Size Format in PowerPoint 2003

Format PowerPoint for widescreen

Format PowerPoint for widescreen

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Set the Slide Width and Height

The most commonly chosen widescreen ratio is 16:9.

  1. In the Page Setup dialog box, under the heading Slides sized for: choose Custom
    • set the width as 10 inches
    • set the height as 5.63 inches

  2. Click OK.

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