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When you add pictures to your Office documents you might need to crop them to remove unwanted areas, or isolate a specific part. Today we’ll take a look at how to crop images in Office 2010.
How to Draw a Perfect Circle in PowerPoint. One such scenario is when you need to draw a circle – you’ll find that PowerPoint’s Shape gallery has no Circle shape! Don’t worry – all is not lost, because there is an Oval shape, and that can be used to draw a perfect circle.
Note: We will show you examples in Word, but you can crop images in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
To insert a picture into your Office document, click the Picture button on the Insert tab.
The Picture Tools format ribbon should now be active. If not, click on the image.
New in Office 2010 is the ability to see the area of the photo that you are keeping in addition to what will be cropped out. On the Format tab, click Crop.
Click and drag inward any of the four corners to crop from any one side. Notice you can still see the area to be cropped out is show in translucent gray.
Press and hold the CTRL key while you drag a corner cropping handle inward to crop equally on all four sides.
To crop equally on right and left or the top and bottom, press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the center cropping handle on either side inward.
You can further adjust the cropping area by clicking and dragging the picture behind the cropping area.
To accept the current dimensions and crop the photo, press escape or click anywhere outside the cropping area.
You can manually crop the image to exact dimensions. This can be done by right clicking on the image and entering the dimensions in the Width and Height boxes, or in the Size group on the Format tab.
Crop to a Shape
Select your photo and click Crop from the Size group on the Format tab. Select Crop to Shape and choose any of the available shapes.
You photo will be cropped into that shape.
Using Fit and Fill
If you wish to crop a photo but fill the shape, select Fill. When you choose this option, some edges of the picture might not display but the original picture aspect ratio is maintained.
If you wish to have all of the picture fit within a shape, choose Fit. The original picture aspect ratio will be maintained.
Conclusion
Users moving from previous versions of Microsoft Office are sure to appreciate the improved cropping abilities in Office 2010, especially the ability to see what will and won’t be kept when you crop a photo.
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If you prefer to get your business message across visually or like to incorporate images and shapes into corporate missives, rely on PowerPoint’s shapes collection to help you shape up your presentations. With Microsoft PowerPoint’s shapes, you not only get to control their sizes and colors, which can be beneficial to match to your corporate logo shades or presentation theme, but you can also combine, stack and shift shapes within each other and form designs. Give new shape to your next slideshow with Microsoft PowerPoint.
1.Press and hold down the “Shift” key. Click once on the “Click to add title” text box in the middle of the slide. Click once on the “Click to add subtitle” text box. Press the “Delete” key. Deleting these boxes is optional but makes room and less distraction for your shapes.
2.Click the “Insert” tab and then the “Shapes” button on the ribbon.
3.Click a semi-circle shape, found under the Basic Shapes section.
4.Position the cursor anywhere on the white PowerPoint slide. Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag to form the semi-circle. Release the left mouse button to place the semi-circle. If desired, drag it into place on the slide.
5.Click the “Insert” tab and “Shapes” button again.
6.Click a shape to place inside the semi-circle, such as the star, under “Stars and Banners.”
7.Position the cursor inside the semi-circle. Press and hold down the left mouse button and drag to form the shape. Release the left mouse button to place the shape. If desired, drag it into place inside the semi-circle.
Tip
- To place PowerPoint shapes in a semi-circle position, insert the first shape onto the slide. Right-click the shape and select 'Copy.' Right-click the slide and select “Paste” to add a second image of the shape. Right-click and select “Paste” to add as many more shapes as you need for the semi-circle. Drag the shapes to form a curved shape, either like a U-shaped smile or an upside-down U-shaped frown.
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About the Author
Fionia LeChat is a technical writer whose major skill sets include the MS Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher), Photoshop, Paint, desktop publishing, design and graphics. LeChat has a Master of Science in technical writing, a Master of Arts in public relations and communications and a Bachelor of Arts in writing/English.
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