Powerpoint will not scale properly on second monitor

Anonymous
2013-12-12T23:14:44+00:00

Powerpoint refuses to scale properly on my second monitor and borders menu items etc. stay too big to operate efficiently. Word is working as it should and the menu items resize appropriately when moving from monitor to monitor. You can view an example screen shot of both Word and Powerpoint on the monitor here: http://screencast.com/t/MAkVnCXAtfph

Is there a setting to fix this and make it behave like Word does?

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-03-30T20:27:19+00:00

    Tried this and unfortunately it didn't solve the problem.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-23T17:27:47+00:00

    Works with Windows 10 and Office 365 - the installation already contains a manifest. I just replaced the dpiAware setting from "True/PM" to "false" in the existing powerpnt.exe.manifest file.

    Unfortunately on my Surface Book using this approach breaks the stylus (pen) functionality. With the dpiAware setting set to "false", using the new "Draw" functionality in Powerpoint results in the drawing to appear somewhere else on the screen but not under the pen tip.

    So I can choose between

    1. Setting dpiAware to "true" and being unable to use Powerpoint on my second (non-high-dpi) monitor due to monster-sized UI-widgets and menus , or
    2. Setting dpiAware to "false" and being unable to use Powerpoint's "Drawing" feature on my built-in and pen-aware (high-dpi) monitor.

    hmmm.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-11T20:14:54+00:00

    If you are running Office 365, you should be able to find the response here, it worked for me !

    http://crsouza.com/2015/08/powerpoint-is-huge-on-a-second-monitor/

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-23T16:36:11+00:00

    bless you!

    worked perfectly!

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