How to Rotate PowerPoint Slides?

The default slide size and orientation of Widescreen (16:9) may not be suitable for some presentations. Landscape slides are commonly used for PowerPoint presentations. If you want portrait slides, how to rotate PowerPoint slides?

The user may have to rotate slides in PowerPoint to better fit the content. Pamphlets and other types of ads may fit better on portrait slides, while landscape slides work best for most presentations.

Rotating slides or changing the slide sizes is easy, and all you have to do is follow the steps explained in the next sections.

Steps to Rotate PowerPoint Slides

Whether you have portrait slides and want to rotate them to landscape or vice versa, the steps to rotate slides are the same for both situations. In PowerPoint, you cannot change the orientation of a single slide. Any type of orientation changes will be applied to all slides in a PowerPoint presentation.

Changing the orientation of the slides will affect the contents of the slides, so make sure you have enough time to make changes to the content, if required. All elements of a landscape slide may not fit perfectly in a portrait slide.

Are you ready to learn how to rotate PowerPoint slides in your presentation? Follow these steps and visuals to change the slide orientation.

Step 1: Open PPT and Design Tab

Open your PowerPoint presentation that you want to rotate and go to the Design tab in the top ribbon. Now, click the Slide Size option in the top right corner.

Choose whether to change the size of the slide to standard or widescreen. As we need to rotate slides, click on the Custom Slide Size option.

Step 2: Change Slide Orientation

A new pop-up will appear with the settings for the slide sizing and orientation. Under the Orientation label, choose Portrait and click Ok.

Step 3: Maximize or Ensure Fit

When you change orientation, PowerPoint will show you another prompt to select whether to maximize the size of your content or ensure fit.

You may try the Maximize option, but some content will expand beyond the borders. For better presentation, click Ensure Fit, and PowerPoint will contain the content within the slide borders.

Step 4: Make Changes if Needed

Now, go to View and choose Slide Sorter to see how all slides look in Portrait orientation. You may have noticed that the presentation looked better in landscape. Not all types of elements are suitable for portrait orientation.

If you want to change the portrait slides back to landscape, follow the same steps, and in the custom slide size pop-up, simply choose Landscape and click OK.

How to Add an Image in a Different Orientation?

You have made the portrait slides, but don’t have the images in portrait style. Most images are available in landscape, but we have the perfect solution for you.

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Are you having trouble finding the perfect images for your PowerPoint presentation? Twistly is a complete PowerPoint presentation assistant that can generate AI images in any orientation for your slides.

Using Twistly to generate images is easy, as you don’t need to leave PowerPoint; Twistly works inside PowerPoint.

Follow these simple steps to generate engaging images for your PowerPoint portrait slides with Twistly.

Step 1: Launch Twistly in PowerPoint

Open your PowerPoint presentation >> launch Twistly >> navigate to the slide where you want to add an image. Click the 4^th “Add Image” option.

Step 2: Enter your Prompt

Choose AI Images as the image source and then write a prompt to generate an AI image and select the orientation of the image, portrait in our case. Click Generate to get the images.

Twistly will give you two images; you can directly insert the image into the slide or regenerate images for more ideas.

Step 3: Resize or Adjust

Click the Insert button on the AI-generated image, and the image will be added to your slide automatically. If you want, you can adjust it according to your needs.

As you can see, it took only an AI prompt to generate a portrait image for your slide.

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