Power Point & MSPaint

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I use to be able to click on a dbl click on a picture in my PP2000 software
and the Ms Paint program would open up to let me edit, modify.. destroy the
picture. Now for some wacky reason that easy action is no longer availabe.
I've tried to search within the tool and help to find out where association
of programs go, but no luck. Can anyone help me out.
 
Tanaka Oshi said:
I use to be able to click on a dbl click on a picture in my PP2000 software
and the Ms Paint program would open up to let me edit, modify.. destroy the
picture. Now for some wacky reason that easy action is no longer availabe.
I've tried to search within the tool and help to find out where association
of programs go, but no luck. Can anyone help me out.
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If you bring the picture into PowerPoint using Insert, Picture, From File, you
can't doubleclick to edit the picture in any version of PowerPoint.

If you drag and drop pictures into PPT, you're right; the default behavior has
changed. In 2000, drag/drop produces an OLE embedded object that you can
doubleclick to launch the file in whatever program "owns" the file.

In 2003, when you drag/drop pictures, you get an embedded image, just as though
you'd done Insert, Picture, From File. No double-click to edit.

On the other hand, you'll find that your PPT files don't get all puffy and
bloated like they do with OLE objects.

If you really want to keep the double-click-to-edit ability, use Insert,
Object; click Create From File and Browse to the image you want to insert.
 
Hey Steve,
Yeah I found that out after a few hours. It's weird the only thing I can
think of is that I must have received the ppt that way in the beginning or
something like that. I did however do what you said and work the
object>Create From File>Browse.

Thank you for your help on that one!

Tanaka
 
Well that is a nice trick but how do I turn the the thing back on? I need to
do it to an image on the spot, after I copy and paste, fluently. Is it really
gone?
 
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