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Inserting Graphics

Inserting Clip Art

Inserting Pictures from Files

 PowerPoint allows you to create visual presentations that stimulate your audience thru such features as: text, graphics and various other content. You can enhance the learning experience and engage your audience in the theme of your presentation by including various types of graphics, such as: clip art, pictures from other files as well as images from the Internet.

 

Inserting Clip Art

PowerPoint stores all of its clip art in a program called the Clip Organizer. The Clip Organizer sorts clip art images, pictures, sounds and motion clips into categories. In addition, you can search for specific media types.
To Insert Clip Art into your slide:  
  1. Move to the slide on which you want to insert the clip art.


  1. Choose Insert> Picture>Clip Art.
  1. The Insert Clip Art Task Pane will appear to the right hand side of your screen.
  1. In the Search Text box, type the keyword relating to your search for graphics and then click the Search button.
  1. Click the picture you want to use. The picture will be inserted into the current slide.


  1. You can resize the picture via the handles or move it on your slide via the outline box.

 

Inserting Pictures from a File

PowerPoint enables you to insert pictures directly into your presentation without using the Clip Organizer. You can insert files that you have saved from digital cameras, scanners, email or even the Internet. Once your file is saved, you may insert the picture.
To insert a picture from a file into your slide:  
  1. Move to the slide on which you want to insert the picture.
  
  1. Choose Insert> Picture>From File.
  
  1. The Insert Picture dialog box will appear on your screen. Locate the graphic you want to insert by searching through your folders and files.
  1. Click the file and click the Insert button. The picture will be inserted into the current slide.
  
  1. You can resize the picture via the handles or move it on your slide via the outline box. However, PowerPoint is not an image editing software, so any major changes to the picture should be done in Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop or some other equivalent piece of software.
 

 

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