Cropping photos for PowerPoint presentation

What's the ratio of the screen? Of the powerpoint slide s/he's using?

Regards

TD

Clyde:

Are these photos going to be used in a slide with other items or be just a slide by themselves?

If the slide format being used is the "Large Picture" or "Picture" (has a title at the top) there's no need to crop at all. The photo go into the frame perfectly. In the test I ran the standard full slide must be 4:3 as the photo I used was able to be resized to fit the slide area perfectly without any cropping or losing any of the image.

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