Drag and Drop Images in PPT2000 Shows an Icon? WHY?

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Bill

On PPT2000 on Win98SE, if I drag & drop an image from Windows Explorer into
my PPT document, instead of showing the image it shows the generic Windows
Explorer icon for an image.

Isn't this ridiculous? Is there a way around this?
 
Are you drag/dropping into a text box? As a text box, in PPT, cannot contain
an image and will put an icon in place of the graphic.

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Dragging and Dropping is not the recommended procedure for inserting images into
PowerPoint. I suggest you use the insert image from file, or Copy and Paste
(Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) Which IMO is not the best either but does work.

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On PPT2000 on Win98SE, if I drag & drop an image from Windows Explorer into
my PPT document, instead of showing the image it shows the generic Windows
Explorer icon for an image.

Isn't this ridiculous? Is there a way around this?
 
Hi Bill,

You asked two questions so I'll do my best to answer each.
Isn't this ridiculous?
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Yes and no, I suppose. It sounds like this may be more of a user training
issue than a software problem.
Is there a way around this?
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Yes. Use the correct method for picture insertion into the PowerPoint
presentation. Save the picture to the HDD, then insert into the
presentation. This way, you get only the picture, not the links. Drop and
drag is quick, I'll grant you that, but it does not know what you want to
bring over. Often you will get more than you wanted. In this case, it
thought you wanted to goto the web-page and inserted a link (since you
dragged the web page onto the slide, I'd say this was a reasonable
interpretation).


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