Oh, excellent! The part I *didn't* know was about clicking outside once the lines are in place. I will try that! Muchisimo gracias. Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) ________________________________________________ Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>** <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* (move your mouse to "event videos") Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change Twitter: @shelhorowitz * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame http://goingbeyondsustainability.com http://transformpreneur.com mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad Levinson) _________________________________________________ On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 6:27 AM, Don Lesser <dlesser at ptraining.com> wrote: > Well, the crop tool puts black lines on each edge. Move them in or out to > crop. When you're done, click outside the picture. The pic should be > cropped and the black lines will go away. Not, as they say, easily > discoverable. > > Resizing. The circles in each corner and midpoint can be dragged. Drag a > corner to keep the pic's dimensions proportional. Drag elsewhere on any > edge to move the pic. You probably want to over enlarge the pic, then put > a corner of the pic on the edge of the slide (maybe even a tad over the > slide to eliminate the white area). Then use the cropping tool to trim the > other edges. > > 'S what I know about ppt pics. > > Sent from my iPad > > On Oct 27, 2017, at 4:27 PM, Shel Horowitz <shel at principledprofit.com> > wrote: > > Can anyone advise how to control photos better? I am trying to resize > photos so they fill the entire slide, then crop off the too-wide right > edge. However, I can't figure out how to resize proportionally OR how to > crop. Sometimes I get the resizing by accident, especially if I pull a > corner diagonally (but sometimes that just moves the whole thing). And I > found the cropping tool, but I find it incredibly unintuitive and in a > dozen or so attempts I have not successfully cropped a picture. Instead I > end up with the proportions all wrong. > > Thanks, > > Shel Horowitz - "The Transformpreneur"(sm) > ________________________________________________ > Watch (and please share) my TEDx Talk, > "Impossible is a Dare: Business for a Better World" > *http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809 > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>** > <http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/11809>* > (move your mouse to "event videos") > > Contact me to bake in profitability while addressing hunger, > poverty, war, and catastrophic climate change > > Twitter: @shelhorowitz > > * First business ever to be Green America Gold Certified > * Inducted into the National Environmental Hall of Fame > > http://goingbeyondsustainability.com > http://transformpreneur.com > mailto:shel at greenandprofitable.com * 413-586-2388 > Award-winning, best-selling author of 10 books. Latest: > Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (co-authored with Jay Conrad > Levinson) > > _________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20171028/ae5c491a/attachment.html