Resizing Your Presentation

Often, resizing your presentation presents no problem. Choose File > Page Setup and choose the new size. But sometimes, especially between 35mm and other settings, your graphics get distorted and misplaced. Here’s how to solve the problem.

If you’ve already changed the page size, change the size back to its original setting.
Choose File > Save As and make a copy of the presentation.
In the copy, Choose File > Page Setup and change the page size as desired.
Re-open the original presentation.
Choose Window > Arrange All.
Find a slide in the new presentation containing a distorted graphic and find the matching slide in the original presentation.
In the original presentation, copy the graphic to the Clipboard.
Click in the new presentation and delete the distorted graphic.
Paste the graphic from the Clipboard.

Repeat steps 6-9 for all the distorted graphics. (Thanks to Steve Rindsberg for this tip.)

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