How to Strip Pictures from PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint presentations often contain graphics that you would like to be able to use in your own presentations. Perhaps the graphics are eye-catching or funny. Or perhaps the graphics you are interested in are graphs or charts you need for a presentation of your own. Assuming the graphics are not copyright protected, you can easily strip them from a PowerPoint presentation and make a screenshot for your own use.

Instructions

1. Start the PowerPoint presentation that has the graphics you wish to save. Locate the first graphic you wish to use. Load its page onto the screen.

2. Press the "Alt" key and, at the same time, press the "Prt Scrn" or "Print Screen" key. You can find the key in the upper right corner of the keyboard above the arrow keys. You may think nothing has happened, but it has. Now click the "Esc" key to leave the PowerPoint presentation.

3. Go to "Start." Choose "Programs," "Accessories" and "Paint." Once the Paint program opens, choose "Edit" from the toolbar. Click on "Paste." Windows has now made a copy of the PowerPoint screenshot and put it on the workspace of the Paint program.

4. Save this screenshot. Click on "File." Choose "Save As" and give the screenshot a name you can remember. Make sure you have it in the proper folder so you can find it. Click "Save."

5. Continue stripping pictures from other slides of the PowerPoint presentation that you can use. Before you know it, you can have a full folder of graphics for your next PowerPoint show.