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Inserting a Picture Slide

1. Now you will want to insert your first picture slide.

Click  "Insert"

Click "New Slide..."



2. Click a layout for the slide. Be sure that your choice leaves room for the image! The bottom four choices leave room for picutures.

Click "Ok"


3. Your New slide appears.  Go ahead and title the slide as before
You now have two choices:

1) Add clipart from the Microsoft ClipArt gallery

2) Add your own image from an image file.

To add clipart from the ClipArt gallery double click the clipart icon. 

The clipart gallery will appear and you can chose a picture to insert.

4. To add  an image from and image file click

Click "Insert"


5. Click "Picture" ... "From File..."
6. Click the pulldown menu labeled "Look in:" and select "31/2 Floppy (A:)" (or wherever your image files are located.

 

7. A list of your files appears.  Select the one you want and then click "Insert".
8. Your picture appears on the slide.

If you picture appears too large (as illustrated here) you can click the image once to invoke "sizing handles on the corners of the picture.

The sizing handles may be dragged to resize the picture.  Note: To ensure proportional resizing,  hold down the "cntrl" key while using the sizing handles.


Congratulations!  You have created a picture slide for the slide presentation.  Before going to the next section be sure to save your work.  (hint: Click the file save icon  )

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