Powerpoint For Mac Connection Points On An Image

I have always longed for a way to import an image into PowerPoint and simply make it transparent, but until now, have had to open up Photoshop in order to achieve what I thought would be a simple effect. Recently, whilst developing a slide with several images overlaying other objects I discovered a way of making the images transparent in PowerPoint. Here is how to do it Rather than importing your images directly onto a slide in PowerPoint, you need to insert the image into a PowerPoint shape. • Create a PowerPoint shape on your slide, then right click on it and select Format Picture, this will open the format picture window.

• Click on Fill tab on left, then select picture or texture fill as an option. • Now click on the Insert From: file option. Navigate to the image you would like to place into the shape and double click. • Your image will now have been placed into the PowerPoint shape, in the Format picture window there is a Transparency option (near the bottom) you can use this to set the transparency of the image anywhere between 0-100%. There is an animation option in PowerPoint allowing you to turn your image transparent, but to achieve this, your image has to be on the screen in its original format before-hand; there is also no smooth action when using this animation, the image simply switches from its original state into transparent in the blink of an eye. (Why Microsoft thought this was the best way to carry out the animation is beyond me, surely a fade to transparent option would be much more useful?) I really don’t know why Microsoft didn’t allow you to change the transparency of all images placed onto slides, but the work around above works perfectly. Below is a video demonstration of how to make an image transparent in PowerPoint: • Share this • • •.

Fill out and sign PDF forms in Preview on Mac. Some PDFs are forms you can fill out and then print or send. If a form requires a signature, you can add your signature to any PDF. Open Preview for me. Fill out a PDF form. In the Preview app on your Mac, open the PDF form. Click a field or a line in the form. I am unable to access the Fill & Sign for PDF files when using my Mac. When I select the option, the document disappears from the screen even though the Fill & Sign tab and tools appear. A flat form does not have interactive fields. It could be a paper form or PDF that hasn’t been optimized for form filling. The Fill & Sign tool automatically detects the form fields like text fields, comb fields, checkboxes, and radio button. Within Acrobat, open a PDF file or click on the Create PDF tool in the right pane to convert your document to PDF. Click on the Fill & Sign tool in the right pane. Click on a text field, then type on the form. With Adobe Fill & Sign DC you can instantly turn digital files or paper documents into forms you can fill, sign, and send electronically. No printing or faxing needed. KEY FEATURES.

Chapter 4. Importing Although you can create new content in PowerPoint, it seems like we’re just importing existing material most of the time. Maybe you’re importing sales charts from market research reports, Word documents from product support catalogs, product manual PDFs, pictures of a new facility from the construction manager, or animated GIFs of a new process from the corporate web site—sometimes all in the same presentation. Importing these disparate materials can be very straightforward or very painful, depending how you go about it. In this chapter, we’ll cover the difference between OLE-linked and OLE-embedded objects, the best way to insert graphics, various ways to import information from Excel, inserting PDF and Word content, and the various paste options PowerPoint offers. Don’t Drag and Drop or Paste Graphics THE ANNOYANCE: I dragged and dropped a picture into my PowerPoint file, and now my file is humongous. What happened? THE FIX: When you paste or drag and drop an image onto a PowerPoint slide, it sometimes creates what is known as an embedded OLE object.

It’s much better to save the image to your hard drive and then use Insert → Picture → From File to insert your images onto your slides. OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding, which is kind of a dumb name because you can’t link and embed at the same time. When you paste an image directly from Adobe Photoshop onto your PowerPoint slide, you’re pasting not only the image itself, but also a bunch of application overhead that lets you double-click the image on the slide to open up a Photoshop window and edit the photo from within PowerPoint. Although that can be handy, it comes at the price of increased file size. To see this for yourself, insert a JPG into a new, blank presentation file using Insert → Picture → From File.