Here is a quick tip to change the unit of measurement while using Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 for Mac. This way, the presenter or the presentation designer can switch the unit of measurement from Inches to CM and viceversa in PowerPoint. First, go to System Preferences in your Mac and choose Language & Region preferences. You can choose Metric, US, or UK. On the PowerPoint menu, select Preferences, and then select View. Click the arrow next to Ruler units, and select a unit of measure from the list. You can select Inches, Centimeters, Points, or Picas. PowerPoint for the web only shows measurements in inches. When you create a poster in PowerPoint, you are essentially creating one big 'slide' that is your poster. The default slide size of a new PowerPoint presentation is 7.5' x 10'. As mentioned previously, the page size of 7.5' x 10' cannot be printed into a good quality poster. Therefore, you have to set the slide size to the desired size of your. Fortunately, it's easy to change your file associations in Mac OS X, if you follow these steps. Select a file with the format you want to change (ex: an MP3, a JPG picture, an HTML file) in the. Change the size of a PowerPoint slide by choosing one of the three options available on your Mac. Standard (4:3) – click on this option if you want slides of 10 x 7.5 inches or 25.4 x 19.05 cm. Widescreen (16:9) – clicking on this setting gets you slides of 13.33 x 7.5 inches or 33.867 x 19.05 cm.
I am working with PowerPoint 2016 for Mac
PowerPoint can export your presentation as a series of images. Go to file, export, select PNG, and you can select just one slide, or the entire presentation to be exported. In the latter scenario, images will be saved in a newly created directory.
Probably a left over from earlier PowerPoint versions, the resolution of these images has always been poor when using the standard settings. In previous versions of PowerPoint, you could somehow change DPI (dots per inch), but it did not affect the output. There are also ways to hack registry system variables (on a Windows machine, not a mac). The results have always been unpredictable.
In the most recent version of PowerPoint on mac, you are presentation with a menu in which you can enter the desired slide dimensions. This dialog behaves strangely when entering extreme values has height or width, flipping the orientation of the slides.
For some reason, I get decent pictures both in 4:3 and wide screen aspect ratios when setting the width to 2998, and the height is calculated to 1686. I have tried to understand why, but failed to do so far. It is probably not worth breaking your head over it, just use these numbers.