How to change slide direction vertically in PowerPoint

When you open the PowerPoint file, the slides display horizontally by default. However, you can change them vertically with a few simple steps. Here's how to change slides from horizontal to vertical layout.

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Change slides from horizontal to vertical

First, open the PowerPoint file, in the Customize group of the Design tab, select Slide Size . Click Custom Slide Size ( Page Setup on Mac) in the drop-down menu.

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The Slide Size dialog box appears. In the Slides group of the Orientation section, choose Portrait or Landscape and then click OK .

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A new dialog box appears so you can resize the content to suit the new orientation of the slide. Select the appropriate Maximize or Ensure Fit option .

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Use horizontal and vertical slides in the same PowerPoint file

Microsoft doesn't provide this feature, but if you link two PowerPoint files together, you can create the illusion that both vertical and horizontal slides are on the same slideshow.

Note, when creating links in PowerPoint, you will break that link if you move one of the two files to another location. To prevent this, move both files into the same folder before linking them.

In this example, we put the first PowerPoint file in the horizontal layout and the second file in the vertical layout. Then open the first file and navigate to the file you want to create the link. Select an object to use to insert the link. You can insert links as text, images or objects.

Here, we use the text box.

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Next, navigate to the Links group on the Insert tab and select Action .

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In the Action Settings dialog box that appears, select Hyperlink to . Open the drop down menu, then select Other PowerPoint Presentation .

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This will open File Explorer, select the file you want to link and click on OK .

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Back in the Actions Settings dialog box, the path to the second file will appear in the Hyperlink to box. If everything looks good, click OK .

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The link is now displayed in the selected object.

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When clicking on this link, it will forward you to the second file. In Slide Show view, it will feel like you are using slides both vertically and horizontally in the same slideshow.

However, if you want to return to the first file, you need to link it to the second file.

I wish you successful implementation!