Article ID: 320087
Article Last Modified on 9/27/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q320087
SYMPTOMS
When you print a presentation with a slide size of 11" x 8.5" (standard slide size is 10" x 7.5"), you receive the following warning:
The slides in your presentation exceed the printable area of the paper in you printer. You can scale the slides to fit the paper or print anyway.
There are three buttons:
- Scale and Print
- Print Anyway
- Cancel
This does not occur versions of PowerPoint earlier than PowerPoint 2002.
CAUSE
When you print a slide with the same size as the paper size, objects on the slide that are in the "nonprintable region" are not printed.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
307841 OFFXP: How to Obtain the Latest Office XP Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name
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01-May-2002 01:36 2,380,904 Powerpnt.msp
01-May-2002 02:05 8,158,720 Powerpnt_Admin.msp
01-May-2002 01:43 2,854 Readme.txt
After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name
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24-Apr-2002 12:44 10.0.4016.0 244,040 Msppt.olb
29-Apr-2002 13:48 10.0.4024.0 5,974,344 Powerpnt.exe
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2).
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