Cropping tool on picture tool bar

[Guest]

I recently created a slide show in PP 2003 using the photo album options to
mass import pictures from a file to the slides. The transfer went great but
when I highlight one of these picture in the slide the cropping tool does not
become active for this picture. When I insert the same picture the more
conventional (and slower way) one at a time the cropping tool works fine.
Why does the cropping tool not work on pictures imported with the photo album
option? Thanks, Jerry

 

[Sonia]

Because the Photo Album feature places the photos in an autoshape (rectangle) as
a background, so it can no longer be manipulated as an image. If you use the
Image Importer Wizard, you won't encounter this issue.
http://skp.mvps.org/iiw.htm
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com