Annotations in PowerPoint Using a Touch Monitor are Off-Target

Summary

How to resolve an issue where annotating a PowerPoint slide using a touch monitor results in writing the annotations on a different location than where you have touched.

Body

Environment: Using Touch-enabled monitor with PowerPoint

Purpose: Fix the issue where your annotations are displayed but are writing far away from where you are touching

Resolution

Locate POWERPNT.EXT, for example: in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16
Right click, troubleshoot compatibility, then troubleshoot program, check "The program opens but doesn't display correctly", then "Program does not display properly when large scale font settings are selected".
Save settings after testing.

Details

Article ID: 69821

Created

Tue 1/8/19 1:05 PM

Modified

Mon 6/13/22 1:44 PM