How to export high-resolution (high-dpi) slides from PowerPoint

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  • Applies to:
    PowerPoint for Microsoft 365, PowerPoint 2019, PowerPoint 2016, PowerPoint 2013, PowerPoint 2010, Microsoft Function PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Part PowerPoint 2003

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You can change the export resolution in Microsoft PowerPoint past saving a slide in a flick format. There are two steps to this process: Use the system registry to modify the default resolution setting for exported slides, and and then salve the slide as a picture show at the new resolution.

Footstep 1: Change the export resolution setting

Important

Follow the steps in this department advisedly. Serious problems might occur if you alter the registry incorrectly. Before you modify information technology, dorsum up the registry for restoration in case issues occur.

By default, the export resolution of a PowerPoint slide that you want to save as a picture is 96 dots per inch (dpi). To change the export resolution, follow these steps:

  1. Exit all Windows-based programs.

  2. Right-click Get-go, and and so select Run. (In Windows seven, select Start, and then select Run.)

  3. In the Open box, type regedit, and and so select OK.

  4. Locate ane of the post-obit registry subkeys, depending on the version of PowerPoint that you're using:

    PowerPoint 2016, 2019, PowerPoint for Microsoft 365

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\xvi.0\PowerPoint\Options

    PowerPoint 2013

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Part\15.0\PowerPoint\Options

    PowerPoint 2010

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Role\xiv.0\PowerPoint\Options

    PowerPoint 2007

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\PowerPoint\Options

    PowerPoint 2003

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\PowerPoint\Options

  5. Select the Options subkey, betoken to New on the Edit bill of fare, so select DWORD (32-bit) Value.

  6. Enter ExportBitmapResolution, and then press Enter.

  7. Make sure that ExportBitmapResolution is selected, and and so select Modify on the Edit carte du jour.

  8. In the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, select Decimal.

  9. In the Value information box, specify a resolution of 300. Or, apply the parameters from the following tabular array.

    Decimal value Full-screen pixels (horizontal × vertical) Widescreen pixels (horizontal × vertical) Dots per inch (horizontal and vertical)
    50 500 × 375 667 × 375 fifty dpi
    96 (default) 960 × 720 1280 × 720 96 dpi
    100 1000 × 750 1333 × 750 100 dpi
    150 1500 × 1125 2000 × 1125 150 dpi
    200 2000 × 1500 2667 × 1500 200 dpi
    250 2500 × 1875 3333 × 1875 250 dpi
    300 3000 × 2250 4000 × 2250 300 dpi

    Annotation

    See the Limitations section for more data when you set this value.

  10. Select OK.

  11. On the File menu, select Get out to go out Registry Editor.

Stride two: Export the slide equally a moving picture

  1. In PowerPoint, open your slide presentation, and then open the slide that you want to export.

  2. On the File menu, select Save As.

  3. In the Save as type box, select one of the post-obit picture formats:

    • GIF Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
    • JPEG File Interchange Format (*.jpg)
    • PNG Portable Network Graphics Format (*.png)
    • TIFF Tag Epitome File Format (*.tif)
    • Device Independent Bitmap (*.bmp)
    • Windows Metafile (*.wmf)
    • Enhanced Windows Metafile (*.emf)

    Notation

    You may want to change the flick's save location in the Save in box. You may also want to change the proper name of the picture in the File name box.

  4. Select Save. Yous will be prompted by the post-obit dialog box:

    Screenshot of every slide option in PowerPoint dialog box.

    Select Current Slide Only. The slide is saved in the new format and resolution in the location that y'all specified in the Save in box.

  5. To verify that the slide is saved in the resolution that you specified, right-click the pic, and then select Backdrop.

Limitations

When you lot set the ExportBitmapResolution registry value in PowerPoint, there's a maximum DPI limitation to consider for some versions of PowerPoint.

Maximum DPI is dependent upon the slide size. The formula is as follows: maxdpi = (sqrt(100,000,000 / (slide with * slide height)), where slide width and height are in inches.

For example, for a standard 13.3" 10 7.5" slide, the equation would be: sqrt(100,000,000 / (13.333 * 7.five) ) = 1000.

PowerPoint 2019, 2016, 2013, and 365

There is no fixed DPI limit. Slide export is express just by how large the resulting bitmap gets. PowerPoint can support bitmaps up to 100,000,000 pixels (width x height). For standard widescreen slides (13.3" 10 7.5"), this ways a maximum DPI of 1,000. For the older mode ten" x 7.5" slides, this typically ways a maximum DPI of 1,155.

PowerPoint 2010 and older

The maximum resolution that PowerPoint tin can export is 3,072 pixels, based on the longest edge of the slide. For example, the standard x" × 7.5" slide has a maximum constructive DPI value of 307. The 3,070-pixel result (ten × 307 = 3070) falls within the iii,072-pixel limit. However, whatsoever DPI setting that's greater than 307 for a standard slide reverts to the limit of three,072.

Decimal value Pixels (horizontal × vertical) Dots per inch (horizontal and vertical)
307 3072 × 2304 307 dpi

The three,072-pixel limit also applies to saving the slide programmatically.

For example, the post-obit code programmatically saves a film that has the dimensions of 3072 × 2304 pixels:

              ActiveWindow.Selection.SlideRange(1).consign "c:\<filename>.jpg","JPG",4000,3000

More information

For information about irresolute the size of your slides, come across Change the size of your slides.