Friday, October 24, 2008

Image Cut and Paste problems....

Suppose you have an image in a Word Document and you would like to cut and paste it into a PowerPoint presentation. Normal Cut and Paste will not work. There is a trick. You can Cut and Paste it, but be careful where you try to Paste it. You MUST Paste it in an area outside of the title box and outside of the text box. Once it is in some "unused whitespace area," then you simply move it to its intended location.

Thursday, October 16, 2008

How to Capture an Image....

Step 1: Select an image from anywhere on the internet you want to capture
Step2: Press the "PrintScreen" key on the keyboard
Step3: Exit out of the website
Step4: Go to the Paint Program (part of Windows Accessories)
Step5: A white box appears in the corner-- resize that box, but keep it relatively small
Step6: It may be hard to get the "resize" icon to appear... keep trying
Step7: Select "EDIT --> PASTE"
Step8: The small box suddenly go huge as the entire page filled in the box
Step9: Select the "dotted box" icon from the paint features
Step10: Enclose the image of interest with the dotted box
Step11: Select "EDIT --> CUT" and the image is gone and placed in memory
Step12: Select "FILE --> NEW"
Step13: When it asks to save changes to untitled, check "No"
Step14: Select "EDIT --> PASTE"
Step15: Resize the white box to match the size of the image
Step16: Select "FILE --> SAVE AS"
Step17: Give it a name
Step18: Save it as Type: JPEG
Step19: Exit out of the paint program
Step20: Go to the PowerPoint slide you wish to insert the image into
Step21: Select "INSERT --> PICTURE --> FROM FILE"
Step22: Browse for the image that was saved on the computer (the JPEG image)
Step23: Double click the image when you find it
Step24: It should be in the PowerPoint slide now!