How do I change the spacing between the slides on the handouts
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From: Wales P. Nematollahi Wales P. on 13 Apr 2010 19:12 "WalkbyFaith" wrote: > I agree...my professors put on soo much text that its hard to read...I'd like > to save paper and have some room for notes but i can't read all the info. > when I do 4 slides or more and 2 slide still is small. White space needs to > be mulipuatable! > > "JR" wrote: > > > I agree w/ Dottie - the ability to re-size the slides in the handout should > > be a function and the Help leads one to believe it could be done. 2 slides > > per handout that are legible is the desire vs. 1 per page. Sure we "can > > print up to 9 slides per page", but you'd need a magnifying glass. Please > > Microsoft - correct this. > > > > "Dottie" wrote: > > > > > I, too, would love to change the layouts for printing. I want /need larger > > > windows and less margins in the 2 and 3 per page handouts. > > > Yes, I 've done it in Word, and yes it's a mess. > > > Let us take margins down to 1/2 inch and enlarge the slide area, give more > > > notes room.... > > > Sorry, I 'm in an educational setting and there is often much too much info > > > on the slides I am sent for printing to print in small squares. > > > > > > I'm off to try that free trial! > > > > > > Dottie > > > > > > "Michael Koerner" wrote: > > > > > > > You can print up to 9 slides per page when printing to handouts. Isn't that > > > > enough? The only other option is to use the send to Word option and > > > > manipulate the tables once in Word. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Michael Koerner > > > > MS MVP - PowerPoint > > > > > > > > > > > > "Dr.Danger" <Dr.Danger(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > > > news:4675157E-EE96-46B8-A5C1-BB96A2F20220(a)microsoft.com... > > > > Microsoft office team, > > > > Being able to change the slide spacing really needs to be included in > > > > PowerPoint. You could promote it as an eco-friendly move. People could print > > > > more slides per page without the text becoming too small, thus saving paper. > > > > I am not sure why there needs to be so much white space between slides > > > > anyway. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
From: Wales P. Nematollahi on 13 Apr 2010 19:31 Okay, now I get how your replies work. Michael Koerner wrote: "You can print up to 9 slides per page when printing to handouts. Isn't that enough?" Frankly, (a) you don't get the point, which is that there is too much WHITE SPACE when one prints handouts, and (b) "Isn't that enough?"is a POOR way to respond to a customer. I am a trainer and tester/evaluator for the government, and an adjunct professor as well. I should have gotten in trouble if I had responded to my customers in that manner. You only help to confirm the stereotype that Microsoft thinks it is superior to its customers. As for sending to Word: Have you ever looked at the size of such files?? The last one I did that, a 33 MB PowerPoint became 198 MB! Based on experience, Open Office does poorly with handouts as well. However, for those of you who have Corel WordPerfect Office: If you send a Presentations file to WordPerfect, the file is not that huge, and one can manipulate notes pages to have four slides on the left of each page, with minimal wasted space. Mr. Koerner: The suggestions from PowerPoint users are excellent. I strongly recommend you try to make adjustments. Wales P. Nematollahi, PhD, MT(ASCP) "WalkbyFaith" wrote: > I agree...my professors put on soo much text that its hard to read...I'd like > to save paper and have some room for notes but i can't read all the info. > when I do 4 slides or more and 2 slide still is small. White space needs to > be mulipuatable! > > "JR" wrote: > > > I agree w/ Dottie - the ability to re-size the slides in the handout should > > be a function and the Help leads one to believe it could be done. 2 slides > > per handout that are legible is the desire vs. 1 per page. Sure we "can > > print up to 9 slides per page", but you'd need a magnifying glass. Please > > Microsoft - correct this. > > > > "Dottie" wrote: > > > > > I, too, would love to change the layouts for printing. I want /need larger > > > windows and less margins in the 2 and 3 per page handouts. > > > Yes, I 've done it in Word, and yes it's a mess. > > > Let us take margins down to 1/2 inch and enlarge the slide area, give more > > > notes room.... > > > Sorry, I 'm in an educational setting and there is often much too much info > > > on the slides I am sent for printing to print in small squares. > > > > > > I'm off to try that free trial! > > > > > > Dottie > > > > > > "Michael Koerner" wrote: > > > > > > > You can print up to 9 slides per page when printing to handouts. Isn't that > > > > enough? The only other option is to use the send to Word option and > > > > manipulate the tables once in Word. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Michael Koerner > > > > MS MVP - PowerPoint > > > > > > > > > > > > "Dr.Danger" <Dr.Danger(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > > > news:4675157E-EE96-46B8-A5C1-BB96A2F20220(a)microsoft.com... > > > > Microsoft office team, > > > > Being able to change the slide spacing really needs to be included in > > > > PowerPoint. You could promote it as an eco-friendly move. People could print > > > > more slides per page without the text becoming too small, thus saving paper. > > > > I am not sure why there needs to be so much white space between slides > > > > anyway. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
From: Steve Rindsberg on 13 Apr 2010 23:55 > Michael Koerner wrote: "You can print up to 9 slides per page when printing > to handouts. Isn't that enough?" Frankly, (a) you don't get the point, which > is that there is too much WHITE SPACE when one prints handouts, and (b) > "Isn't that enough?"is a POOR way to respond to a customer. I am a trainer > and tester/evaluator for the government, and an adjunct professor as well. I > should have gotten in trouble if I had responded to my customers in that > manner. You only help to confirm the stereotype that Microsoft thinks it is > superior to its customers. Just so you understand the basics, you're not Michael's customer. He, like everybody else who answers questions here, is a volunteer, not Microsoft staff. I'm one of the other volunteers (and also an adjunct professor, for that matter) and I agree that PPT's handouts are borderline useless. My "fix" is to create a PDF, printing SLIDES, not handouts, to the PDF file. Then open the PDF in Acrobat/Reader and use its ability to print multiple pages per sheet to make n-up handouts. By setting the number of pages per sheet to "Custom" and fiddling with the number of rows/columns, you can all but eliminate the wasted white space. Our trees bow down in appreciation. ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/
From: Michael Koerner on 14 Apr 2010 08:00 Thanks Steve "Steve Rindsberg" <abuse(a)localhost.com> wrote in message news:VA.00005888.41063f74(a)localhost.com... > >> Michael Koerner wrote: "You can print up to 9 slides per page when >> printing >> to handouts. Isn't that enough?" Frankly, (a) you don't get the point, >> which >> is that there is too much WHITE SPACE when one prints handouts, and (b) >> "Isn't that enough?"is a POOR way to respond to a customer. I am a >> trainer >> and tester/evaluator for the government, and an adjunct professor as >> well. I >> should have gotten in trouble if I had responded to my customers in that >> manner. You only help to confirm the stereotype that Microsoft thinks it >> is >> superior to its customers. > > Just so you understand the basics, you're not Michael's customer. He, > like everybody > else who answers questions here, is a volunteer, not Microsoft staff. > > I'm one of the other volunteers (and also an adjunct professor, for that > matter) and I > agree that PPT's handouts are borderline useless. > > My "fix" is to create a PDF, printing SLIDES, not handouts, to the PDF > file. > Then open the PDF in Acrobat/Reader and use its ability to print multiple > pages per > sheet to make n-up handouts. By setting the number of pages per sheet to > "Custom" and > fiddling with the number of rows/columns, you can all but eliminate the > wasted white > space. > > Our trees bow down in appreciation. > > > ============================== > PPT Frequently Asked Questions > http://www.pptfaq.com/ > > PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint > http://www.pptools.com/ > >
From: Steve Rindsberg on 15 Apr 2010 12:07
In article <340AD6A5-48D8-4A2E-A449-B34D3D762162(a)microsoft.com>, Michael Koerner wrote: > Thanks Steve De nada. Oh, and I forgot to mention ... I added this recently: Print larger handouts http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ01046.htm ============================== PPT Frequently Asked Questions http://www.pptfaq.com/ PPTools add-ins for PowerPoint http://www.pptools.com/ |