Placing Images In PowerPoint Presentations

Sometimes the easiest task can be so difficult if you don’t know how to do it. Placing an image in a PowerPoint presentation used to be one of those tasks. But not anymore. 

Here’s how to do it:

When in your PowerPoint presentation, go to “Insert” in your upper menu, then “Picture”, then “From File”. There you will be able to choose the image you need to place into your PowerPoint presentation. 

 

You can also use your Formatting Palette to do this.

Go to “View” in your upper menu and select “Formatting Palette”. The Formatting Palette will pop up, and you can click on the second icon after the word “Insert”. This is just a shortcut to inserting an image and will give you the same result as using the above technique.

 

 

Now, when you have placed your image on a page that had copy, it will cover the copy. What you need to do now is send the image to the back. Select your image and go back to your Formatting Palette. Under the “Size, Rotation, and Ordering” heading you will find the “Layering” option. Click on that to bring up a drop-down menu and select “Send to Back”. You image will now go back behind your copy. And that’s it!