Powerpoint 2016 Desktop does not scale interface on multi-monitor setups

Anonymous
2015-09-22T17:27:01+00:00

Hi,

Surprised this bug is not yet fixed from PPT 2013. In does not occur in Word or Outlook.

I have a Surface Pro 3 with an external HD monitor running Windows 10. The Surface screen is scaled to 150% DPI, the HD monitor, which is the main screen, is in native 100% scaling.

Powerpoint 2016 does not scale its windows when it is dragged to the high-res Surface screen, but all the fonts and UI elements remain tiny at 100% size.

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Anonymous
2016-09-22T21:29:51+00:00

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that, at long last, this issue has been fixed.

The current issue of PowerPoint not automatically scaling to different monitor sizes when in edit view is addressed with Windows 10 Anniversary Update version 1607. With the updated fix, PowerPoint will adjust to the correct screen size when dragged to different monitors.

To access this fix, be sure you have Windows 10 version 1607 or later, and PowerPoint version 16.0.7341.2032 or later, released on September 21, 2016 for Current Channel customers.

To get the latest Office updates, click File > Account > Update Options > Update Now.

Again, many thanks for you patience and feedback.

Best,

-Erik, Office Newsroom

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Anonymous
2016-08-23T00:35:59+00:00

PowerPoint has fixed this DPI scaling issue in the latest update of Office 2016 and the application now behaves in the same manner as Word and Excel when dragged to a monitor with a different DPI. You will need both the latest PowerPoint update as well as the recent Windows Anniversary update.

The fix will be available to those in the Office Insider program in the next week or two, and will hit general availability by end of September.

Learn more about Office Insiders or join today here:

https://products.office.com/en-us/office-insider

Read more about the DPI scaling improvements in Windows 10 Anniversary Update in this blog post:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askcore/2016/08/16/display-scaling-changes-for-the-windows-10-anniversary-update/

Note: At this time, the fix is only available for Office 2016 click to run users, but the team is working hard to port this fix to other versions of PowerPoint.

Thanks again for your patience and feedback on this complicated issue.

Emily Tohir

PowerPoint Program Manager

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-05-26T22:48:13+00:00

    Mine is  insane on a 27-inch. 17% zoom needed to see full slide in vertical mode. I cant even read the text and look at the full slide at the same time.

    Microsoft is really pissing me off, here. First no full OneNote support for pen (Reason I bought surface book). Second, I cant merge my Xbox account with my dev account (Another reason I bought surface book was to have everything synced up). 

    Now i cant work on PPT on my big monitor!?

    This is my first and last Microsoft hardware purchase unless they get it together. And as a dev in the .NET stack, it seems to me my business should be quite lucrative to them.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-05-17T11:31:32+00:00

    This is not a helpful answer, nor does it address the stated problem.

    The scaling of the slideshows or anything in the main window is not the issue, the issue is the Ribbon menu does not scale.

    This means on my Surface Book at 3000x2000 I have a small window at the top with small ribbon, cool, I want a big window to edit and I can read it, however when I move it onto a lower resolution monitor it is useless.

    ![](http://fud.community.services.support.microsoft.com/Fud/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?fid=78718ef9-cc15-4910-8385-c56bbdef6f16)

    This is a screen shot on a 1280x1024 screen, the ribbon is huge, using more than 25% of the screen at the top.

    I agree there are issues with getting the display scaling working really well, and it is mostly fine, a big improvement in most areas.

    However I really am surprised that DPI scaling isn't applied to the interface itself, the rendering of the presentations in a non-DPI way doesn't mean you can't apply DPI scaling to the menus. (please don't tell me it can't be)

    So I am saying the power point team need to work on this, all the compatibility options are useful for other issues with other programs (if you can't find compatibility tab, remember to run the compatibility tool first otherwise it is hidden from properties) to turn off DPI scaling, but this is not the case with PowerPoint.

    Never used to be an issue and it needs to be fixed, you can' dictate the size of the physical screen powerpoint will be edited on, it seems to be, not to big a resolution, not to small a resolution, in fact it has to be this size monitor with this resolution or its unusable.

    Listen to your customers please!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-05-12T01:42:50+00:00

    This is a terrible solution.  I moved from a 1350 size laptop to a new 3560x1440 laptop/ Now Powerpoint tool bars take up 25% of my large 27 inch 1920x1080 display. It all worked fine before. Your products are poor now. It makes my system unusable. Make your software scale correctly to the monitor. Both word and excel do this properly. All three are really graphics to the screen.

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