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Add Clip Art and Pictures to PowerPoint Slides

By Wendy Russell, About.com

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Insert a Picture into a PowerPoint Slide

Use the menu to insert a picture

Use the menu to insert a picture

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Inserting Photos

Like clip art, photographs and other pictures can be added to a slide by choosing a Content Layout slide and clicking on the appropriate icon (for pictures it's the mountain icon).

An alternative to this method is to select Insert > Picture > From File... from the menu, as shown in the picture at the top of this page.

An advantage of using this approach for either pictures or clip art is that you do not need to use one of the preset slide layouts containing a content icon to insert an image into your slide. The example shown in the following pages, inserts the picture into a Title Only slide layout.

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