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Don’t use placeholders for images, unless…

March 8, 2015 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

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I was working on a client’s presentation and she used content placeholders for all of her pictures.  She would click the Picture icon in the content placeholder to insert the image. Then she would resize and move the placeholder to get the result she wanted because the placeholder was never the right size. But whenever […]

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How to create unique picture placeholder shapes

May 12, 2011 by Ellen Finkelstein Leave a Comment

Julie Terberg has written a great blog post about creating picture placeholders. A placeholder is an element in a slide layout. The secret here is to use any shape, even a custom shape, to define the shape of the placeholder. By using this technique, you can create very unique slides. Read more here.

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