Microsoft KB Archive/62742

PowerPoint 2.00 Help: Using the Paste From Command PSS ID Number: Q62742 Article last modified on 10-03-1991 PSS database name: W_PowerPt

2.00

WINDOWS

Summary:

The information below is taken from the Microsoft PowerPoint Version 2.00 Help file for Using the Paste From Command.

This command pastes from a file into your presentation. The file may contain graphics or an outline.

Graphics are imported as pictures (metafiles) with the following editing capabilities: Pictures can be recolored, moved, cropped, and resized. Using the Windows Clipboard, a picture can also be moved to a Windows drawing program, modified, and then returned to PowerPoint.

The currently supported graphics formats are:

WMF, Windows metafiles CGM, Computer Graphics Metafiles DRW, Micrografx Draw PIC, Lotus 1-2-3 HGL, (HPGL), HP Graphics Language TIFF, monochrome only EPS, Encapsulated Postscript PLT, AutoCAD ADI binary plotter DIB, device independent bitmaps BMP, bitmaps

PowerPoint uses the file extension to determine which format to use for reading the file.

More Information:

Outlines can be imported only while in Title Sorter view or Slide Sorter view. The file must be ASCII or RTF.

Top level text becomes the title of a new slide, and subsequent lower levels of text are indented according to the current defaults. A summary slide is created which lists all the titles.

Hint About Pasting Pictures:

If you’ve pasted a picture and you somehow lose the original aspect ratio, you can double-click on a resize handle to restore the original proportions.

If you want to restore the picture to its original size, SHIFT+Double-Click will do so.

For more information about this topic, refer to Pages 177-181 and 325 of your “Microsoft PowerPoint User’s Guide.”

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1991.