As practical as PowerPoint portrait view might seem at first glance, implementing it is actually quite complicated. One thing to keep in the back of your mind, for example, is that most presentation environments, such as projection screens, etc., are tailored to and optimized for landscape format. Another barrier is that the Microsoft program isn’t really set up to handle a mix of horizontally- and vertically-orientated slides within one project – in the standard settings, you can only rotate all the PowerPoint slides together.
In the following step-by-step tutorial we will show you first how the general conversion to PowerPoint portrait view works. After that, we’ll explain how you can use PowerPoint slides both in portrait and in landscape view within the same document, despite the restrictions in the settings.