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Time Saving Change Picture Option in PowerPoint

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Do you know what did I use to do if I was asked at a stretch to perform a multitude of hard tasks within a short period of time at the work place? To tackle the initial turmoil, I would have sat still for some time, and when the emotional pressure slightly smoothens, I would just login to my instant messenger and would chat freely with someone, who was simply killing free time at his/her office sitting at somewhere in the world. Another method, which I practiced and found as a successful stress-buster was playing computer games. If you have card games or chess or even some comic fun games available in your PC, dealing with them also are proved as capable to kill the workplace pressure.

Ok, so that was the introduction. And, this time, what I try to introduce as part of my PowerPoint Learning Series is another tricky method to ease the difficulty that you might have faced while creating PowerPoint based e-learning modules. How many times have you faced the necessity of changing an image into another one, after giving it so many animations and effects? You must be cursing yourself while you are reluctantly changing the image and giving animations once again starting from the scratch. 

I was not aware of the Change Picture option available in PowerPoint till my colleague invited my attention to it. Suppose you have an image with some complicated animations and some other image effects appended to it, so that it is impossible to change it easily. At that unfortunate moment, you came to notice a matchless, stunning, and aesthetically pleasing image somewhere in the web, or in an unnoticed corner of your hard disk.

Don’t worry! What you need to do is to just right click on the image that you want to change in your PowerPoint file and select the option ‘Change Picture’. That will open an ‘Insert Picture’ dialogue box. Navigate to the folder where the desired image is located and click on it, press Ok. These simple clicks could save some tedious tiresome repetitive jobs. Your new image will appear in the PowerPoint file, in the exact place, in the exact size and with the exact effects and animations you initially applied to the first image.

See an example below.

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