COPY/PASTE PROBLEM IN POWERPOINT 2003

[Guest]

When I copy an image and paste into a standard slide layout that has a Click
Icon message, the image does not fill the entire placeholder and must be
resized and positioned manually. This is time consuming and results in images
not being consistently placed from slide to slide. PowerPoint 2000 and
earlier did not have this problem - images filled the placeholder and wer
ecorrectly centered on the slide. I've been told that it is a bug in 2003.
Currently using SP1. Any work around or plans to remedy? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

If you want to paste the picture in every slide, you can go to View > Master

Slide Master. Then, paste the picture in the slide master and close master

view. If there is a slide that you do not want the picture to be seen, click
Format > Background. Then tick the Omit background graphics from master.
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[Steve Rindsberg]

When I copy an image and paste into a standard slide layout that has a Click
Icon message, the image does not fill the entire placeholder and must be
resized and positioned manually. This is time consuming and results in images
not being consistently placed from slide to slide. PowerPoint 2000 and
earlier did not have this problem - images filled the placeholder and wer
ecorrectly centered on the slide. I've been told that it is a bug in 2003.
Currently using SP1. Any work around or plans to remedy? Thanks.

I just tried what I *think* you're describing in both PPT2003 SP1 and SP2; in
both cases the pasted image fills the placeholder, distorting it if need be.

On the whole, this isn't a particularly good way to add images to PPT.

Best practice is to use Insert, Picture, From File to add the picture.
There's a free add-in, the PPTools StarterSet (http://starterset.pptools.com)
that lets you memorize the slide size (or any other size/position) and whack
your newly added picture (or any other shape) to that size, distorted or not,
your choice, with one click.

 

[Guest]

No, I don't think this will address what I need to do. Basically copy to
clipboard and then pasting different images, etc. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Steve, sounds like you are experiencing something a little different than
what I am. I'm taking a graphic or other object from another application
(specifically a graph from an MS-Access database that is using GigaSoft Pro
Essentials although I've had the same problem with other clipboard copy-paste
items), copying it to the clipboard, then pasting in. When pasted, it does
not fill up the entire placeholder but does show it as being 100% in size. If
I manually increase the size to say around 150% keeping the aspect ratio
locked, I can fill up the place holder without it being distorted but I still
need to recenter the image. I guess the key problem is that in prior versions
of PowerPoint, the pasted image would be automatically sized proportionally
and centered in the placeholder but not in 2003 SP1 which I'm now using. I'll
check out the PPT Starter Set thaa you mentioned to see if it can help me.
Thanks.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve, sounds like you are experiencing something a little different than
what I am.

Yes indeed. Nothing unusual there; there are so many routes into PPT that we have
to get EXTREMELY specific and detailed descriptions at times.

I'm taking a graphic or other object from another application
(specifically a graph from an MS-Access database that is using GigaSoft Pro
Essentials although I've had the same problem with other clipboard copy-paste
items), copying it to the clipboard, then pasting in.

I don't have the bits needed to try that specific example here but if you've got a
way of replicating the behavior with standard Windows/Office apps, I'm happy to give
it a shot.

When pasted, it does
not fill up the entire placeholder but does show it as being 100% in size. If
I manually increase the size to say around 150% keeping the aspect ratio
locked, I can fill up the place holder without it being distorted but I still
need to recenter the image. I guess the key problem is that in prior versions
of PowerPoint, the pasted image would be automatically sized proportionally
and centered in the placeholder but not in 2003 SP1 which I'm now using. I'll
check out the PPT Starter Set thaa you mentioned to see if it can help me.

Give it a shot, and what I'd do is avoid pasting into placeholders.
See if pasting onto a blank slide makes things more predictable. I'm betting it
will.

 

[Guest]

By the way, seems to be more of a problem with the Blank, Title and Content,
and Content layouts. The other content type of layouts like Title and 2
Content, Title and 4 Content, and Title Content and 2 Content seem to work
much better as I'm guessing that they are reducing the size of the pasted
image rather than enlarging it.. While trying a few different things, I did
at one point get the paste to a Blank layout and maybe one of the others that
was not working to size properly but I was not able to replicate the steps
successfully.