Advanced PowerPoint: Importing Graphics into PowerPoint

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Advanced PowerPoint Importing Graphics into
PowerPoint

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What kind of graphics can you insert into a
PowerPoint slide show?

• You can insert clip art pictures that come with
  PowerPoint.
  
• You can insert your own pictures from files.
• You can apply graphics files as backgrounds to
  your slides.

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How do you insert a PowerPoint clip art picture?
Click on Insert, then on Picture, then on Clip A
rt.
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Browse through the categories of clip art to find
the picture that you like. Click on the picture o
f your choice and then click on Insert.
Adjust the size and add text boxes and text to
complete the slide.
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Helpful Hints on Sizing Your Pictures
You can adjust the size of a picture by clicking
on it and pointing at one of the 8 handles with
the cursor. Hold and drag the mouse until it is
the size you like.

• If you drag diagonally on the corner handles,
  you adjust the size proportionally larger or
  smaller.

If you drag up, down, left, or right on the
middle handles, you will distort the picture.
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Quick Review Card Inserting a PowerPoint Clip A
rt Picture
Insert a blank PowerPoint slide.
Click on Insert, then on Picture, then on Clip
Art. Browse through the categories of clip art to
find the picture that you like.
Click on the picture of your choice and then
click on Insert. Resize the picture by clicking o
n it. Then click on one of the handles and drag
it diagonally or up and down or left and right to
make it larger or smaller.
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Inserting Your Own Picture as a Background for a
Slide is as Simple as ABC.
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To insert a picture as background
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4. Browse through your computers hard drive to
select a picture file. Highlight the picture you
like and click OK and OK again.
PowerPoint likes EMF, WMF, JPG, BMP, etc.
graphics file formats. It will handle other f
ormats if it has the correct graphics filter
installed.
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5. Click on Apply to apply that picture as
background to the current slide or Apply to All
to apply it to the entire presentation.
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Thats all there is to it!
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Quick Review CardApplying a Picture as a
Background to a Slide

• Click on Format and then on Background.
• Click on the down arrow below the Background Fill
  box.
  
• Click on Fill Effects and then click on the
  Picture tab.
  
• Click on Select Picture.
• Then browse through your computers hard drive to
  select a picture file. PowerPoint likes EMF,
  WMF, JPG, BMP, PICT, etc. graphics file formats.
  It will handle others if it has the correct
  graphics filter installed.
• Highlight the picture you like and click OK and
  OK again.
  
• Click on Apply to apply that picture as
  background to the current slide or Apply to All
  to apply it to the entire presentation.