You can insert a picture into a slide easily enough, but often, you'll be working with placeholders -- especially when working with a layout slide. You insert the pictures into the placeholder, and ...

How to create a custom picture placeholder in Microsoft PowerPoint Your email has been sent If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a ...

Presentation expert Garr Reynolds says "backgrounds should be simple without lots of perceptible differences among the background image itself since this would interfere with the foreground elements." ...

Whether you want to focus on a particular part of a picture, remove distracting detail from the edges of a graphic, or reshape an image to fit a specific layout, the Crop tool in Microsoft Word, Excel ...

Go to the Insert tab in the Images group and click Photo Album. In the Photo Album list, click New Photo Album. A Photo Album dialog box will appear. Inside the dialog box, click File/Disk. An Insert ...

Change the side layout to blank. Click Shapes on the Home tab and select the rectangle shape from the menu and draw it on the slide. Then go back to the Shape menu and select a circle. Draw the circle ...

Have you ever sat through a presentation where the slides felt cluttered, inconsistent, or just plain dull? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Yet, creating polished, professional slides doesn’t have to be ...

If you want to convert images to SmartArt graphics and or shapes in powerpoint, just follow the simple steps in this article. To convert images into SmartArt graphics: Select the images to be ...

PowerPoint will faithfully reproduce the original format of a picture that you insert, even if it means expanding it to a large size. The average slide in a PowerPoint presentation is about 1024 by ...

How to use picture placeholders for easy placement and cropping in PowerPoint Your email has been sent If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you're going to love the new layout ...