Slide Master and Slide Layouts: Pictures in Content or Picture Placeholders

Created: Tuesday, December 3, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 4:35 pm

Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 10:41 am

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Placeholders in PowerPoint make it easy for the users to insert any media file such as pictures, video, audio, etc. For Pictures, PowerPoint provides two placeholders Content and Picture. Although both placeholders enable you to insert pictures, there is a difference in the way that pictures behave when inserted within these placeholders.

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Pictures in Content or Picture Placeholders

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