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Chris Marks - 08 Oct 2007 20:28 GMT

When I try to add a picture to a slide by clicking on the "Insert Picture"
icon in the placeholder, the picture is added in the center of the slide,
not in/with the place holder this makes the slide layout feature worthless.
Any ideas? Windows XP SP2 and Office XP.

Chris

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Chris Marks - 08 Oct 2007 20:38 GMT

Solved it, sort of. I replaced the check in the "Automatic layout for
inserted objects" under Tools, Auto Correct Options... and now the
placeholder acts as I expect. It seems there should be a way to be able to
take advantage of a place holder when I want, but for PP not to autoformat
objects that I insert by other methods. Again, any ideas?

Chris

> When I try to add a picture to a slide by clicking on the "Insert Picture"
> icon in the placeholder, the picture is added in the center of the slide,
> not in/with the place holder this makes the slide layout feature
> worthless. Any ideas? Windows XP SP2 and Office XP.
>
> Chris

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Echo S - 09 Oct 2007 02:01 GMT

Insert the picture in the placeholder by clicking the Picture icon in the
content placeholder. Of course, that means you need to use a slide layout
that uses a content placeholder, but it sounds as if you may be doing that
anyway already.

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> Solved it, sort of. I replaced the check in the "Automatic layout for
> inserted objects" under Tools, Auto Correct Options... and now the
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