Powerpoint question

[thebratqueen]

Question for those more versed in the ways of Powerpoint 2007 and/or 2010 than I:

Is there are a reason why you would design a slide template with the background pictures falling off of the sides of the slide? Like if you had a picture of a tree, but half of the picture of the tree rested on the slide, and the other half of the tree was on the side?

I ask because I've been given a template similar to this at work and my instinct is to simply crop the picture so I'm not constantly dealing with the overflow. But I think the template was designed in a later version of Powerpoint than we use (we're stuck in 2003... sigh). So I wanted to check to see if there was a reason for this before I did anything.

Anybody know?

Comments

[funkyreunion]

It sounds like the template might be sized/proportioned for a widescreen monitor?

[thebratqueen]

Well it's just the picture, though. Like if we go back to the tree, imagine that the leaves of the tree rest in the bottom left corner (so that the page number would appear in the leaves) and the trunk of the tree falls off of the slide into the grey space that surrounds a slide when you're working on it.

Would that be something affected by widescreen monitors vs not?