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RAH - 21 Feb 2007 20:16 GMT

I have created a PP2007 presentation. Now I would like to go back and
change some of the pictures that were used. I can't figure out where
they came from. Most programs allow you to right-click on a photo and
you get a properties option so you can see the path to the photo.
Where is that function in PP2007?

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Steve Rindsberg - 22 Feb 2007 04:55 GMT

> I have created a PP2007 presentation. Now I would like to go back and
> change some of the pictures that were used. I can't figure out where
> they came from. Most programs allow you to right-click on a photo and
> you get a properties option so you can see the path to the photo.
> Where is that function in PP2007?

No such animal, unfortunately.

However, you can save a web page (htm not mhtm) and look in the folder full of
support files this creates. There'll be one Slidexxx.htm file for each slide
in the presentation. Open that in Notepad and you'll find the original
filenames of any images on the slide buried there in the htmlrubble. Simplest
way to find them quickly is to do a search for .jpg or .png or whatever format
you tend to use for images

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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RAH - 22 Feb 2007 05:08 GMT

>> I have created a PP2007 presentation. Now I would like to go back and
>> change some of the pictures that were used. I can't figure out where
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Thanks Steve. I'm not sure how I would do that. I don't see any
option in the save as to save in the html format. That would work
fine if I knew how. I am familiar with the use of FrontPage.

I tried doing a search, but it's kind of a lost cause. I have
thousands of pictures on two hard drives that are saved in different
folders for different purposes. In addition, most of them are saved
in the original camera file name which is basically numbers. When I
created the presentation, I picked various ones to include, but didn't
write down their path. I found a lot of them, but not all. I need to
be better organized in the future.

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Steve Rindsberg - 22 Feb 2007 16:00 GMT

> >No such animal, unfortunately.
> >
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> >way to find them quickly is to do a search for .jpg or .png or whatever format
> >you tend to use for images

> Thanks Steve. I'm not sure how I would do that. I don't see any
> option in the save as to save in the html format. That would work
> fine if I knew how.

It's there. OfficeButton, Save As and in the Save As dialog box, look in the
options given next to "Save as type". You're looking for Web Page (*.htm)

> I am familiar with the use of FrontPage.

It's useful for some things but for this, Notepad is a smaller, faster and more
efficient hammer.

> I tried doing a search, but it's kind of a lost cause. I have
> thousands of pictures on two hard drives that are saved in different
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> write down their path. I found a lot of them, but not all. I need to
> be better organized in the future.

FWIW, our inexpensive Starter Set Plus upgrade has two tools that might help. One
is a Picture Insert tool that uses the normal Windows file dialog box. It
remembers where you last imported pictures and always goes back there to start
with (as opposed to the Office one that wants everything to be in My Pictures).

It also has a tool for viewing tags and other information about shapes. Including
the "Picture source" tag that the Insert Picture tool adds. IOW, you can tell
where the picture came from.

It wouldn't take much arm twisting to get me to write a little macro to give you a
report of all the images in the presentation and their paths. But it'd only work
with images inserted via this tool.

http://www.pptools.com/starterset/

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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