Pb: fine line of blank space stuck on the left and end of screen when in show mode

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jdemboise@googlemail.com - 26 Nov 2006 17:39 GMT

Hello -

I'm posting my problem here after nearly an hour of googling without
much success :-| Maybe this problem is well know, and if so, please
don't flame me, I couldn't find something about it ;-)

I have also put a picture of the problem here:
http://organizational.typepad.com/files/Picture1.png

In details, it only happens in slide show mode. When I have something
in the background other than a white background, I still have a really
fine line of white space along all the left side of the screen, as well
as along the bottom side of it. Approx. 1mm wide. I've tried everything
and several kind of design, background, etc... but it's always there.

The only clue I have is that, when I'm putting a picture that is much
bigger than the slide itself and put the presentation in mode show, I
don't have the white lines.

This makes me think that, somehow, the background picture may be
misaligned with the slide itself during the operation of putting it in
"show mode".

If someone could help me with this problem, he will have my eternal
gratitude :-)

Many thanks - Julien

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Steve Rindsberg - 26 Nov 2006 18:49 GMT

> I'm posting my problem here after nearly an hour of googling without
> much success :-| Maybe this problem is well know, and if so, please
> don't flame me, I couldn't find something about it ;-)

Nah, we don't do that here. Ran out of matches and propane years ago.

> I have also put a picture of the problem here:
> http://organizational.typepad.com/files/Picture1.png

And it *was* worth a thousand words ... thanks.

> In details, it only happens in slide show mode. When I have something
> in the background other than a white background, I still have a really
> fine line of white space along all the left side of the screen, as well
> as along the bottom side of it. Approx. 1mm wide. I've tried everything
> and several kind of design, background, etc... but it's always there.

OK, no flames, but permit a small spark? We have questions here regarding
PowerPoint versions 97 through 2003, sometimes Mac folk fall down the wrong
chute and land here, and now PowerPoint 2007 beta plus soon enough the real
2007 release. It's always good to mention which you use.

Seems a sure thing that it's 2007, but beta or ForReal? If beta, I think this
is something that was a known problem and is probably fixed in the release
version.

> The only clue I have is that, when I'm putting a picture that is much
> bigger than the slide itself and put the presentation in mode show, I
> don't have the white lines.

Given that, if you need a workaround while using the beta, you could put a
larger picture, or perhaps just a black rectangle on each slide's b/g or on the
master background; would that solve the problem?

> This makes me think that, somehow, the background picture may be
> misaligned with the slide itself during the operation of putting it in
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>
> Many thanks - Julien

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