Change the target screen resolution for web-based presentations

You can optimize your presentation for a specific screen

resolution to give it the best possible appearance.

When you publish your presentation online, it is often

difficult to anticipate the size at which viewers will

have their screens set. One user may have an older

monitor that is set at a smaller size of 640 pixels

wide by 480 pixels high. Another may have a newer,

larger monitor that is set at 1024 x 768.

However, today’s corporate users are likely to have

similar hardware and screen resolutions. When you

know that users have newer monitors, for example,

you can predict that most will view presentations at

800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. Therefore, you can set

PowerPoint to publish online presentations in a

format that looks best at those screen resolutions.

You can also set the screen resolution to work best

on smaller screens, such as those used on notebook

or handheld devices. For example, a presentation for

a sales force using handheld devices could be

optimized for 544 x 376.

1 Click the Office button.

2 Click Save As.

The Save As dialog box appears.

3 Navigate to the folder in which

you want to save the online

presentation.

4 Click here and select either Single

File Web Page or Web Page.

5 Click Publish.

The Publish as Web

Page dialog box

appears.

6 Click Web Options.

The Web Options dialog box appears.

7 Click the Pictures tab.

8 Click here and select the resolution you

want.

9 Click OK.

10 Click Publish.

PowerPoint publishes the presentation

optimized for the screen size you selected

Include It!

You can optimize the screen resolution

when you want to display the content

of a frame in another browser

window. For example, if you publish

at a smaller screen resolution, you can

bring the presentation into another

Web page and still have room for

additional content.

Did You Know?

You can change the default optimum

screen size that PowerPoint uses for

all of your presentations. Click Office

and then click PowerPoint Options to

open the PowerPoint Options dialog

box. Click Advanced and then click

Web Options to open the Web Options

dialog box. Follow Steps 7 to 10 in

this task to set the resolution, and

then click OK.