why is the crop tool is not highlighted?

[Guest]

the picture tool bar is displayed and the picture is selected but the crop
tool cannot be selected, any ideas?

 

[Bill Dilworth]

If the image is the fill of an autoshape, the crop tool will not be
available. Often, this is seen after a series of pictures are added via the
Photo Album feature of PowerPoint.

You may want to use the Image Importing Wizard (add-in) which inserts the
images as images instead of shapes.
http://skp.mvps.org/iiw.htm

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[Steve Rindsberg]

the picture tool bar is displayed and the picture is selected but the crop
tool cannot be selected, any ideas?

What Bill said.

Or it might be a vector (ie, drawing-type) graphic rather than
raster/bitmap/photo/scan/whatever/you/want/to/call/it.

PowerPoint can only crop bitmaps; you might be able to ungroup a vector
graphic and edit the pieces.

Or it might be a bitmap *within* a vector graphic; in that case, ungroup until
you can select the bitmap alone; then you should be able to crop it.