Awesome Image Fills!

A really fast way to fill an autoshape with an image background in PowerPoint 2007.

A lot of my work depends on speed in building presentations. I often reuse animations, changing the images. This tutorial demonstrates how.

PowerPoint 2007 offers an absolutely fantastic way to do this on the fly without drilling down through countless dialogue boxes.

I have an image at the top of the slide (from a current project I'm working on) and an autoshape at the bottom. I right click on the top image and select "Copy".

I then right click on the bottom shape and select "Format Shape".

The format dialogue box pops up.

Ensure you are on the Fill Tab (top left selection) selected and click on Picture or texture fill (circled red). Then click the Clipboard button (also circled red).

The autoshape at the bottom is automatically filled with the image from the first picture I placed on the clipboard when I copied it.

Now, we can go on to do some other effects only available in autoshapes, in this case by editing the autoshape points.

Absolutely cool, and a very powerful demonstration of how some features in PowerPoint 2007 have been brought to the surface!