Clipart Distortion

[Bill]

I am using Office 2007 and XP Pro.
I copied some clipart from the Microsoft site and pasted it into a
PowerPoint Slide. The resulting image was "distorted" as for some reason when
pasting it is "enlarging" to "fit" the slide (and the slide is landscape
format).
The same piece of clipart pastes fine into a "Word" document and then from
the "Word" document into the slide. The same piece of art copies perfectly
directly from the website and into the slide if "dragged and dropped".

I must assume I have some setting which is causing this - please can someone
help?

Many thanks

Bill

 

[Cyndical]

Can you check which autolayout your slide is using? I'd be willing to bet
that it's chosen one that has a placeholder for clip art and is filling it,
instead of whatever one you were using originally.

Just the other day, I was copying a chart from one slide to another (in XP)
and it was doing exactly what you describe because the program was selecting
an autolayout for me and cramming the copy of that chart into the space
allowed for clip art by that autolayout.

For reasons I don't fully understand, PowerPoint will automatically choose a
layout for you when you paste something in. There is a way to disable it,
after you paste and see the distortion, a little icon should appear in the
lower right and if you click on it, a drop down will give you options for
pasting. I forget what it says exactly but it's something like "don't let
PowerPoint choose an autolayout for me". It's not necessary at all to have a
placeholder for clip art, since you can have it on a blank slide if you want
to. I guess it's just easier to click on the icon and have clip art pop in
than go the Insert -> Picture -> Image from file route?

You can also try right-clicking on the image to bring up the pop-up menu,
choose "Format Picture" and hit the Reset picture button on that dialog box.

HTH!

 

[Bill]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.
I do not know how to find the autolayout in use but for what it's worth
tried your suggestions and the following results:
1. There is no little tag or icon after pasting - I presume you are
referring to a "tage" the same as a "paste" in Word?
2. Right clicking the image does not give me anything of value.

Best solution seems to be to either drag and drop or use "paste special" and
select "Windows Metafile".

Anyway - thanks again for the suggestions.

Bill

 

[Echo S]

PowerPoint 2007 doesn't have an "autolayout" feature.

Are you pasting the clipart into a placeholder? That could distort it. The
autolayout that the other poster mentioned does that -- it automatically
applies a slide layout, which means it adds placeholders and so it can
reformat your slide layout. It's an issue mostly in Office XP (PowerPoint
2002).

But the principle is still the same. If you're pasting into a placeholder
(where it says "click to add" or where you click an icon to add an object),
it may distort the image, and that may be the problem you're seeing. If you
paste directly onto the slide, not inside the placeholder, then the image
wouldn't distort.

 

[Bill]

Hi,

Many thanks for the help - frankly as far as I know I am not using a
placeholder, I am simply right clicking on the edge of the slide and the
resulting paste is distorted.

The following actions however give me a perfect result:
1. If I drag and drop the result is fine;
2. If I paste into Word the result is also fine and the if I copy from word
into PowerPoint all is OK;
3. If I "paste special" using "windows metafile" the result is alo fine.

As I said - many thanks for the suggestions but perhaps I'll just stick to
"drag and drop" - it's easier

Bill

PowerPoint 2007 doesn't have an "autolayout" feature.

Are you pasting the clipart into a placeholder? That could distort it. The
autolayout that the other poster mentioned does that -- it automatically
applies a slide layout, which means it adds placeholders and so it can
reformat your slide layout. It's an issue mostly in Office XP (PowerPoint
2002).

But the principle is still the same. If you're pasting into a placeholder
(where it says "click to add" or where you click an icon to add an object),
it may distort the image, and that may be the problem you're seeing. If you
paste directly onto the slide, not inside the placeholder, then the image
wouldn't distort.

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply.
I do not know how to find the autolayout in use but for what it's worth
tried your suggestions and the following results:
1. There is no little tag or icon after pasting - I presume you are
referring to a "tage" the same as a "paste" in Word?
2. Right clicking the image does not give me anything of value.

Best solution seems to be to either drag and drop or use "paste special"
and
select "Windows Metafile".

Anyway - thanks again for the suggestions.

Bill