Preamble - would peeps refer to any Xara Slideshow by its OCC / Local Designs Gallery Caption or its Edit Title when you are seeking help.

This approach of changing the aspect ratio may only work in the Effects Slideshow 2 (Tile Slideshow 2 Widget):

  • Open Tile Slideshow 2 Widget for editing.
  • For Utilities > Options > Page, set 640 x 640px or whatever and set all pages to be the same.
  • Now, Unlock everything and reposition the rectangle and text to the bottom of the page - just tidier as Xara forces these down anyhow. They can be CSSed to somewhere else but that would be a different Masterclass.
  • Crop and rescale the image block to 640 x 640px.
  • Drop in square images.
  • Change text.
  • Save.
  • Change the Placeholder presentation best fit.
  • Rescale.
  • Done.

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