Close the image-editing application, and then double-click the photo in PowerPoint. Then move over to PowerPoint and paste it onto a slide.

jpg file in Photoshop or another image-editing program. Now open a new, blank presentation file, as well as the. You should see the Format Object dialog box (see Figure 4-1). To see this for yourself, insert a JPG into a new, blank presentation file using Insert → Picture → From File.

Although that can be handy, it comes at the price of increased file size. When you paste an image directly from Adobe Photoshop onto your PowerPoint slide, you’re pasting not only the image itself, but also a bunch of application overhead that lets you double-click the image on the slide to open up a Photoshop window and edit the photo from within PowerPoint.

OLE stands for Object Linking and Embedding, which is kind of a dumb name because you can’t link and embed at the same time. It’s much better to save the image to your hard drive and then use Insert → Picture → From File to insert your images onto your slides. THE FIX: When you paste or drag and drop an image onto a PowerPoint slide, it sometimes creates what is known as an embedded OLE object. THE ANNOYANCE: I dragged and dropped a picture into my PowerPoint file, and now my file is humongous.