

This will make the selected theme to appears as default when you open a new PowerPoint presentation, keeping the standard size instead of the new default size.Then choose Save Current Theme. You will see the Theme saved in the themes gallery, but now right click over the saved theme and choose Set as Default. Once you have changed the size from widescreen to standard, then go to Design -> Themes and click on the popup.While Ensure Fit will make sure that everything in the slide is shown. Maximize will try to keep the size of your content but will cut the left and right borders. In order to use the 4:3 aspect ratio you can change it following the steps below: Set 4:3 aspect ratio as the default size for your PowerPoint slides But if you normally create presentations in 4:3 then you may be interested to setup the old 4:3 aspect ratio by default when the new blank presentation is created. However, in PowerPoint 2013 the aspect ratio is set by default to 16:9 widescreen format instead of the normal 4:3 aspect ratio.Įven if the blank presentation starts with the widescreen 16:9 format, you can always change back to 4:3 or any other desired page format. It was not new the ability to change aspect ratio in PowerPoint, you can do this from the Design -> Page Setup menu option or Slide Size in the new version.

PowerPoint 2013 was introduced with a new default Aspect Ratio 16:9 compared with the previous versions of MS PowerPoint.
