resizing graphics

[Tom in Texas]

When pasting large photos & graphics into Powerpoint, is there any way
to automatically re-size them? Do we always have to manually resize
each one? It's ok, but time-consuming.

Tom in Texas

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

When pasting large photos& graphics into Powerpoint, is there any way
to automatically re-size them? Do we always have to manually resize
each one? It's ok, but time-consuming.

Tom in Texas

If you are using the content placeholders, the pictures will be sized
according to the dimensions of the placeholder.

-Jim

 

[Tom in Texas]

Ok....looking for placeholders in all the wrong places. Where do I
find placeholders??

TnT

 

[CyberTaz]

Click the Slide Layouts button in the Elements Gallery & take a look at the
dotted rectangles on various layouts. The rectangles that display the 6
'insert content' icons are Content Placeholders. Use a slide layout that
includes a Content Placeholder of that type & select that placeholder before
inserting the content. The incoming content will be constrained by the
placeholder. If you don't select a placeholder the content is
pasted/inserted at whatever its default dimensions happen to be.

Along the same line, it's best to process graphic content using a graphics
editing program in order to determine the resolution, pixel dimensions, etc.
before inserting them into any type of document file. This is especially for
raster images, which is what any photograph would be. Scaling raster
graphics in the document app can tender quite unacceptable results.

One further word of friendly advice Pasting graphic content into any
type of document is one of the worst practices you can adopt. Use the
Insert> menu to insert images... Especially photos. Rely on copy/paste only
if there is no other alternative.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Melba's Jammin']

One further word of friendly advice Pasting graphic content into any
type of document is one of the worst practices you can adopt. Use the
Insert> menu to insert images... Especially photos. Rely on copy/paste only
if there is no other alternative.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Curiosity question: Why is that a bad practice, Bob?

 

[CyberTaz]

Curiosity question: Why is that a bad practice, Bob?

When you copy a graphic in any given file you are not actually copying the
image file itself, you're copying the screen preview of it. The screen
preview is usually lower resolution & the Clipboard has no idea whether it
was created from a JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. What gets pasted into the new
location is generated as a PNG on a Mac, as an EMF on a Windows system.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

When you copy a graphic in any given file you are not actually copying the
image file itself, you're copying the screen preview of it. The screen
preview is usually lower resolution & the Clipboard has no idea whether it
was created from a JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. What gets pasted into the new
location is generated as a PNG on a Mac, as an EMF on a Windows system.

Not entirely true of Windows, but copy/paste is a bad idea there as well.
Pasting may give you unwanted links to images on the internet, or may produce
OLE objects (MUCH fatter than a simple image would be).

 

[Melba's Jammin']

When you copy a graphic in any given file you are not actually copying the
image file itself, you're copying the screen preview of it. The screen
preview is usually lower resolution & the Clipboard has no idea whether it
was created from a JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. What gets pasted into the new
location is generated as a PNG on a Mac, as an EMF on a Windows system.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Thank you for the explanation.

 

[CyberTaz]

Not entirely true of Windows,

Yeah, but I never hesitate to generalize because I know you're there to
clean up behind me ;-)

Bottom line is that a bad idea is a bad idea regardless of the reason *why*
it's a bad idea

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yeah, but I never hesitate to generalize because I know you're there to
clean up behind me ;-)

Bottom line is that a bad idea is a bad idea regardless of the reason *why*
it's a bad idea

No cleanup required here. My work on this thread is done.