Why do my display properties suddenly change?

I create PowerPoint presentations at home using my work laptop, then hook the
laptop up to the projector at work to run the presentations. When I view
everything at home all is well, but once I boot the laptop at work the
display changes- everything is large: the desktop icons, the PowerPoint
display- everything. This is so strange, I've never seen anything like this.
Once display properties are set how can they change in a different
environment?

Thanks for any help.

mccd

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:03 -0700, mccdaddy wrote:

> I create PowerPoint presentations at home using my work laptop, then hook the
> laptop up to the projector at work to run the presentations. When I view
> everything at home all is well, but once I boot the laptop at work the
> display changes- everything is large: the desktop icons, the PowerPoint
> display- everything. This is so strange, I've never seen anything like this.
> Once display properties are set how can they change in a different
> environment?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> mccd

Does the projector have a different resolution than your laptop?

If so, develop the presentation by setting your laptop to the same
resolution as the projector. It won't look great on the laptop, but it
will be compatible.

Change it back when you are not using PowerPoint.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:03 -0700, mccdaddy wrote:
>
> > I create PowerPoint presentations at home using my work laptop, then hook the
> > laptop up to the projector at work to run the presentations. When I view
> > everything at home all is well, but once I boot the laptop at work the
> > display changes- everything is large: the desktop icons, the PowerPoint
> > display- everything. This is so strange, I've never seen anything like this.
> > Once display properties are set how can they change in a different
> > environment?
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > mccd
>
> Does the projector have a different resolution than your laptop?
>
> If so, develop the presentation by setting your laptop to the same
> resolution as the projector. It won't look great on the laptop, but it
> will be compatible.
>
> Change it back when you are not using PowerPoint.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
> .
>
I'll have to check the resolution on the projector. Would a different
setting in the projector cause the default resolution on the laptop to
change?

Strange.

mccd

On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:34:03 -0700, mccdaddy wrote:

> "Gene E. Bloch" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:15:03 -0700, mccdaddy wrote:
>>
>>> I create PowerPoint presentations at home using my work laptop, then hook the
>>> laptop up to the projector at work to run the presentations. When I view
>>> everything at home all is well, but once I boot the laptop at work the
>>> display changes- everything is large: the desktop icons, the PowerPoint
>>> display- everything. This is so strange, I've never seen anything like this.
>>> Once display properties are set how can they change in a different
>>> environment?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help.
>>>
>>> mccd
>>
>> Does the projector have a different resolution than your laptop?
>>
>> If so, develop the presentation by setting your laptop to the same
>> resolution as the projector. It won't look great on the laptop, but it
>> will be compatible.
>>
>> Change it back when you are not using PowerPoint.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
>> .
>>
> I'll have to check the resolution on the projector. Would a different
> setting in the projector cause the default resolution on the laptop to
> change?
>
> Strange.
>
> mccd

Actually, I used the wrong term. I meant the *native* resolution of the
monitor, that is, exactly the number of pixels on its LCD screen.

There is otherwise no real default resolution, only a *current*
resolution, AFAICT.

Since I use neither PP nor a projector, I have no answer to your
question and no way to test it. OTOH, if the resolution on the laptop
itself really changes, I would blame it on PP, not on the laptop or
Windows.

You were a bit unclear in your OP. I thought you meant that the view
with a projector looked awful, not that the resolution changed on your
laptop.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)