Slide masters paste as pictures and smaller than the screen

Hi Sara,

Regarding the image you want to use - since PowerPoint and Quizmaker have different slide dimensions, your image will probably need resizing in order to make it fit nicely in Quizmaker. Another option though, if your quiz is part of a Presenter project, is to use your PowerPoint slide master behind your quiz, and then just make your quiz player transparent. Here's a tutorial that shows how to do that:

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/making-your-quiz-look-seamless-with-your-presenter-project.aspx

Any idea how to get it NOT to paste as a picture? It's not originally -- it's a a bunch of individual shapes.

Thanks for the transparency tutorial -- I'm going to investigate that further...

Hi Sara! If the shapes in your PowerPoint file are not grouped, you should be able to copy/paste the individual objects from PowerPoint to Quizmaker by using Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste ... I just did this on a sample file and it worked, although as Brian mentioned, you might need to resize or rearrange things to make stuff look right on your Quizmaker slide. If you have trouble, feel free to attach the PPT slide in a reply post to this thread, and we can give it a try here.

Very strange, because mine are NOT grouped, and it definitely isn't doing it. I'm running PPT 2007; are you running 2010, by chance?

Here is a slide from my presentation. On my end, each shape is separate in slide view; when I tried pasting it into a QM slide, it pasted as a picture again. 

Thanks in advance for any help and/or sleuthing

Ah, good detective work! I do use 2010, but just retried the copy/paste in 2007 and you're right, the items paste in as images! Looks like you might need to paste the items in one at a time in order to be able to resize them separately. Another option would be to create a bogus PPT slide, and resize/rearrange things to fit within a space of 9.53 inches wide and 5.89 inches high. Those are the same dimensions as Quizmaker (in pixels, the Quizmaker slide stage is 686 pixels wide x 424 pixels high). Then you could select all and paste into Quizmaker and things should fit.

Good to know the dimensions! Thank you!

And maybe this is enough fodder to get my boss to spring for 2010...! [crossing fingers]

Thanks for the help!

If he does, make sure you get the 32-bit version of 2010!