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Although you can search for pictures on Google Images or Bing, these pictures show in web browsers, and even then, you cannot use most pictures in your slides since that would be a copyright violation. Fortunately, PowerPoint provides an option to search for pictures on Bing, which makes sure that you find Creative Common pictures so that you don’t end up being on the wrong side of the law.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Insert Pictures from Bing in PowerPoint 2016
Insert Pictures from Bing in PowerPoint 2013
Tutorial Code: 09 01 05
Previous: 09 01 04 Insert Pictures from the Office ClipArt Collection in PowerPoint
Next: 09 01 06 Insert Pictures from Flickr in PowerPoint
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Within this first tutorial in our series that explores Insert Online Pictures in PowerPoint, we are going to explore the Office Clip Art option. This online picture service is provided by Microsoft and includes royalty-free photos and illustrations.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Insert Picture from the Office ClipArt Collection in PowerPoint 2013
Tutorial Code: 09 01 04
Previous: 09 01 03 Insert Online Pictures in PowerPoint
Next: 09 01 05 Insert Pictures from Bing in PowerPoint
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In this series of tutorials on Slide Background fills, you have already explored various slide background styles available. You have learned about solid, gradient, picture, and texture fills for Slide Backgrounds. When you use texture fills for your Slide Backgrounds, you need not limit yourself to only the default textures that PowerPoint offers.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Using Custom Textures as Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 06 12
Previous: 08 06 11 Workaround for Picture Backgrounds in PowerPoint
Next: 09 01 01 Insert Pictures in PowerPoint
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Tagged as: 08-06, Fills for Slide Background, Fills Lines and Effects, PowerPoint Tutorials
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We have already shown you how you can apply picture fills as slide backgrounds, all the picture format options which can be applied on a picture also works for a picture background. Unfortunately, once you apply Office 2013’s Service Pack 1, many of the picture format options for picture backgrounds stop working.
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Workaround for Picture Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013
Tutorial Code: 08 06 11
Previous: 08 06 10 Corrections and Color Options for Picture Backgrounds in PowerPoint
Next: 08 06 12 Using Custom Textures as Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint
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Patterns in PowerPoint are two-color designs comprising lines, dots, dashes, checks, etc. PowerPoint includes 48 such patterns with names like Plaid, Weaves, Shingle and Zigzag. This tutorial builds upon what you have already learned in the Format Slide Background tutorial, and shows how you can use a Pattern fill for your slide background.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Pattern Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2016
Pattern Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2013
Pattern Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2010
Pattern Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint 2011
Tutorial Code: 08 06 08
Previous: 08 06 07 Texture Fills for Slide Backgrounds in PowerPoint
Next: 08 06 09 Artistic Effects for Picture Backgrounds in PowerPoint
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