You are never going to get a portrait image to fit a landscape screen unless you loose some of the image when your sizing. I don't believe you can properly copy to the widescreen presentation without distortion. You have to insert everything from scratch.

When your resizing your image just use the corner holders as they should maintain the aspect ration of your image.

 Michael...I started a new pp presentaion and enlarged the scene to 16
 horizontal and 9 vertical.  For some slides it looks okay but for some with a
 portrait style photo..when you stretch it out, the person is greatly
 distorted to be unusable. Is there any way to correct that???

 "Michael Koerner" wrote:

 > I'm guessing that your desktop is using a 3/4 display and your laptop is a 16:9 or 16:10 display. Whichever computer your creating the presentation on set up the page to the dimensions of your laptop and then create your presentations.
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 >   Michael Koerner
 > MS MVP - PowerPoint
 >
 >
 >   "Casey" <Casey@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8609FA71-CDBC-4B3D-8468-BC74B9CC162F@microsoft.com...
 >   I am using pp 2003 professional and XP.  When I play a presentation on my lap
 >   top, I see bars on the right and left of my screen...where the slide/picture
 >   doesn't fill out to the ends.  It does not do this on my desk top computer.  
 >   I use my laptop to show presentations on a data projector on a large
 >   screen..so this is annoying to have the slides not fill the screen completely.
 >   Please help!!!  I am desperate

Hi Casey

Austin Myers has great tool on his site for calculating exactly the size of
slide to fill a screen:
http://www.playsforcertain.com/calculate.htm

Lucy