Another tip I learned recently: ensure your host has the right version of PPT as you, or save it to their version in advance (PDF worse comes to worse, losing animation).

These are basic and important skills and youll use them even in other programs, because they are universal.

You resize an image when its the right shapeproportion, but just the wrong size.

To resize an image select it so that you see handles on the corners and sides.

The image to the right has an arrow pointing to one of the handles.

Using a side or top handle will distort the image and make your people look fat or undernourished.

Just say no to the temptation and read on below where I explain what to do if the shape of your image needs to be adjusted.

Check your images in Slide Show view to see if they are still clear.

When you crop the image, some of it will be hidden (or perhaps lost forever).

But thats the only way to get the shape you need without distorting the image.

I could resize it to make it shorter, but then it would be too narrow.

Hmmm, where shall I crop You have to make a decision, based on the content of the image.

In this case, it would be better to crop the bottom, rather than get rid more of the mans head.

Click the Format tab, then the Crop button.

The image on the right has an arrow pointing to one of the cropping handles.

So in this case, I would use the cropping handle on the bottom side of the image.

When Im done cropping, I just move the image back in place, using the same arrow keys.

Can you see that most of the table in front of the laptop, at the bottom of the drawing, is now hidden Thats the part that I cropped off.

If you can crop off parts of a photo that arent necessary, youll make the image more powerful.

To try, select it and on the Format tab, click the Reset Picture button.

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One thing you can do is to double click on an image which brings up the Picture Tools option.

Use the Compress Pictures button and that allows you to discard th eunused parts of cropped photos a big space saver.

Powerpoint For Mac Turn Off Auto Resize