On the Insert tab, click Photo Album in the Images group. A Photo Album dialog box will open. Under the Insert Picture From section, click the File/Disk button. An Insert New Picture dialog box will ...

If you don’t want the same rectangular pictures for your Microsoft PowerPoint slide show, create a custom-shaped picture placeholder and make it available to the presentation via a layout slide.

You don’t need specialized skills to make a picture fit a specific space. A few basic skills–resizing and cropping–are all you need. Forcing a picture to fit the space you’ve allotted on a slide can ...