Microsoft KB Archive/67979

PowerPoint Graph Picture Is too Big to Fit in Slide PSS ID Number: Q67979 Article last modified on 10-29-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

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WINDOWS

Summary:

It is possible to create a chart in PowerPoint Graph that is too large to fit on the slide. While in the Graph program, the chart is always displayed at 50 percent of the size that it will appear when on the slide in the presentation. You can control the size of the chart by resizing the Chart window in PowerPoint Graph. When you exit and return to PowerPoint, the graph picture that will be embedded into the presentation is twice the size of the chart window in PowerPoint Graph.

If you want to maximize the chart window in PowerPoint Graph and then exit and return to a presentation that was formatted using the Display driver, the embedded graph picture would be approximately twice the size of the slide. It may be difficult to move or resize the picture, even in 50-percent or 33-percent view.

You could change the slide size by using the Slide Setup command to display the resize handles of the graph picture. Or, you can simply double-click the graph, which will return you to the Graph program, and then reduce the size of the chart window and return to your slide.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.