July 22, 2005

Hi-Res photos in PowerPoint

Any PowerPoint creators out there? You can place hi-res images in it.

Exported images in older versions of PowerPoint, including 97, 2000, and XP, were limited to the computer screen resolution, usually 72 or 96 dots per inch. PowerPoint 2003, on the other hand, allows users to customize image resolution to higher values, said Chun-Shan Yam, Ph.D., of the radiology department at Beth Israel. This feature is obscure because no entry for it appears in the file menu, and it is not documented in the Windows help menu. Detailed instructions are available on Microsoft's Web site.

Microsoft says the feature will be available in subsequent editions of PowerPoint; it's available for Mac Office 2001 and X as well as PP 2003.

This seems to be particularly useful to radiologists, but I can imagine a whole lot of scientific uses (geologic strata and microbiological cell structures, for two).

Posted by Linkmeister at July 22, 2005 10:36 AM | TrackBack
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