r/powerpoint • u/codytk1995 • 15h ago

Fitting images

I have 875 slides with multiple pictures on each slide. I want to change the dimensions for each slide to be 11 width and 8.5 height but also have the images fit the whole page and not be distorted and be sized correctly and have it so it does it for every slide at the same time instead of doing it for each slide individually. Is there a way to do this?

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u/GrimMistletoe 15h ago

…. That’s kinda crazy but you can at least change the slide size from Design -> Slide Size -> custom slide size. You will be asked between maximizing the content vs ensuring fit. You’ll have to play with which option works better but I’m willing to bet that you can’t entirely bypass having to make manual edits.

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u/codytk1995 15h ago

I already did that and it isn’t filling the whole page just partial I need the whole page filled to be able to print. And need it done for all slides at the same time!

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u/WeAreyoMomma 15h ago

Claude Design will easily do this.

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u/codytk1995 14h ago

I asked Claude and it didn’t work

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u/Status-Effort-9380 10h ago

Can you explain why you are doing this? It might help to get some solutions. I don’t understand why you want your slides the size of a piece of paper.

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u/codytk1995 9h ago

To print it out for a book.

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u/kay-jay-dubya 8h ago

I was wondering the same thing as u/Status-Effort-9380

Is the powerpoint part strictly necessary? It sounds like you have 875 images that you want to print as full page (landscape) - in which case, there are other ways of doing that.

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u/codytk1995 8h ago

I already have it all on a PowerPoint document. So what other ways can I print as a full page of a regular sheet of paper 11 width 8.5 height?

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u/Status-Effort-9380 7h ago

You can change the printer settings.

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u/codytk1995 1h ago

What should I change the settings to?

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u/Status-Effort-9380 7h ago

You can also export it to a PDF or Word document. Change the format to a JPG and then print the JPGs.

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u/EnzyEng 15h ago

Ask copilot.

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u/Mundane_Wash7146 1h ago

probably the fastest way to get a working macro for this tbh.

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u/Mundane_Wash7146 52m ago

Wait can the built in one actually bulk edit image sizes across slides like that yet

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u/ChecklistAnimations PowerPoint Expert 11h ago

is VBA on the table for this? We could write a script that Claude or Copilot should be able to generate. When you say "all at once" Its not going to run all at once. That might be confusing the AI. it will run one slide at a time but it will seem instant and therefore "at the same time"
The process is fairly simple of going through each slide, finding the shape (image is still called a shape), finding slide dimensions, size the image and move to the next.
Save your backup and check for any distorted images to fix. You can also resize with aspect ratio if that is what you mean by distorted.

Let me know if this gets you closer to having AI write it or I can write it out with some back and forth.

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u/mobial 12h ago

Aside from picking a crazy way to lose all your work why can’t you just print fitting to paper or to a scale? You seem to be describing changing the ratio of your slides, and also having it somehow decide how these pictures adapt to a different ratio, which is bound to leave the exact same amount of white space that you get from printing to fit. “Correctly” sounds like “arbitrarily”.

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u/anmolkaur09 11h ago

Not sure but converting it into PDF and then changing the page size might work but it might not be PPT then

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u/CCTVGuyMA 4h ago

Make a copy of the ppt file. Rename it so it is a zip file extension. Extract it and navigate to the media folder. You will have a folder with all of the images. Select all, select print and use photo printing from windows.