Screen Appearance has changed

mcdonald · 24th August 2008, 19:02

Hi,

After running Power Point (MS Office 2008) on my MacBook, and viewing the presentation via a projector, my screen appearance has 'changed'. It looks wider and almost blurry. For example, when Mail application is running, only part of the 'window' is able to be displayed, and unable to cursor across to the area which cannot be seen.

I had the same problem on my PC laptop, but a right click the screen and select (I think) View Normal. But this option isn't available on the MAC.

All suggestion welcome.

mcdonald · 24th August 2008, 19:12

A few setting changes in System Preferences - Displays has sorted it out. The display somehow went to 800x600 stretched, presumably to format the Power Point to the projector.

Anyway, all sorted now.

Zaid Al Hilali · 24th August 2008, 20:39

Pressing "Detect Displays" button in the Displays System Preferences would fix it.

mcdonald · 25th August 2008, 08:44

Thanks for the tip

chefmerrick · 25th August 2008, 09:47

this tends also to happen with windows vista, once you connect it to a projector it changes its mode which disables the mouse and only arrow keys and enter works,. you can change these setting by function F3 in which it restores it back to its original condition.

24th August 2008, 19:02	#1 (permalink)
mcdonald Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 55	Screen Appearance has changed Hi, After running Power Point (MS Office 2008) on my MacBook, and viewing the presentation via a projector, my screen appearance has 'changed'. It looks wider and almost blurry. For example, when Mail application is running, only part of the 'window' is able to be displayed, and unable to cursor across to the area which cannot be seen. I had the same problem on my PC laptop, but a right click the screen and select (I think) View Normal. But this option isn't available on the MAC. All suggestion welcome.

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24th August 2008, 19:12	#2 (permalink)
mcdonald Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 55	A few setting changes in System Preferences - Displays has sorted it out. The display somehow went to 800x600 stretched, presumably to format the Power Point to the projector. Anyway, all sorted now.

24th August 2008, 20:39	#3 (permalink)
Zaid Al Hilali Senior Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: Mirdif-Dubai Posts: 1,393	Pressing "Detect Displays" button in the Displays System Preferences would fix it.

25th August 2008, 08:44	#4 (permalink)
mcdonald Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 55	Thanks for the tip

25th August 2008, 09:47	#5 (permalink)
chefmerrick Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 241	this tends also to happen with windows vista, once you connect it to a projector it changes its mode which disables the mouse and only arrow keys and enter works,. you can change these setting by function F3 in which it restores it back to its original condition.