You can insert a picture into a slide easily enough, but often, you'll be working with placeholders -- especially when working with a layout slide. You insert the pictures into the placeholder, and ...

How to create a custom picture placeholder in Microsoft PowerPoint Your email has been sent If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a ...

Presentation expert Garr Reynolds says "backgrounds should be simple without lots of perceptible differences among the background image itself since this would interfere with the foreground elements." ...

Whether you want to focus on a particular part of a picture, remove distracting detail from the edges of a graphic, or reshape an image to fit a specific layout, the Crop tool in Microsoft Word, Excel ...

Change the side layout to blank. Click Shapes on the Home tab and select the rectangle shape from the menu and draw it on the slide. Then go back to the Shape menu and select a circle. Draw the circle ...

Have you ever sat through a presentation where the slides felt cluttered, inconsistent, or just plain dull? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? Yet, creating polished, professional slides doesn’t have to be ...

How to use picture placeholders for easy placement and cropping in PowerPoint Your email has been sent If you insert a lot of pictures into PowerPoint slides, you're going to love the new layout ...