Images replaced by placeholders (PowerPoint 2004)

[Joel Nelson]

I have a photo slideshow presentation created with linked JPEG images. I
modified the images to reduce their file size (but changing nothing with the
file name). Now PowerPoint has replaced all those images with placeholders
(blue triangle, red square, teal circle). I don't see an easy way to just
click on the placeholder and reselect the image either. It looks like I'll
have to delete the placeholders and add and resize each image. I don't
even know what caused that since all I did was reduce the file size by
opening each image in Preview and re-saving using the same file name. The
extensions are all the same case also (.jpg and .JPG).

Joel Nelson

 

[Joel Nelson]

I figured this one out -- since the presentation was first saved as a
PowerPoint Package, the images have to be in the same folder as the
presentation.