Notes pages are odd-sized
Problem
Your presentation is set to the standard 10 x 7.5" page setup but when you look at your notes pages, one or more of them are set to some odd size and you can't change it back.
Solution
We've no idea why this happens, but here's how you fix the problem in PowerPoint 2000 or later:
If you have Microsoft Script Editor installed
- Open the problem presentation.
- Choose Tools, Macro, Microsoft Script Editor (if it's not there, you'll have to re-run Setup to install it, but before you do that, read the other option below).
- In the script editor, use the Project Explorer window to select pres.xml
- In the first few lines of code, you'll see: "
- Delete both "notessizex" and "notessizey" entries (and nothing else).
- Choose File, Exit. When asked, let it update the files.
Your notes pages will now be reset to their default size.
If you don't have Script Editor installed
- Open the presenation
- Choose File, Save As Web Page. Make sure it's set to HTML rather than Single File/MHT. Give it a name and save it to any convenient folder. This creates a [name].htm file and a [name]_files folder (where [name] represents the name you gave the file when you saved it)
- In the [name]_files folder you'll find a file called pres.xml
- Open pres.xml in Notepad
- In the first few lines of text, find and delete the text that reads: notessizex="4068" notessizey="6048" (the numbers may be different)
- Save the file
- Switch back to PowerPoint, where you'll notice that the current presentation is now named [name].htm.
- Close the presentation then choose File, 1 (open the first file on the MRU list) to reopen [name].htm
- The notes page will now be normal sized.