How to Cite a Picture in PowerPoint
After completing the research to create the optimal PowerPoint presentation, you have just one thing left to do before unleashing the slide show on an audience -- giving credit where credit is due. To ensure that your viewers understand the pictures and graphics within the slide show, it is important to properly cite items used. Citing in PowerPoint offers attribution and can also give viewers a place to seek additional information.
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Instructions
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Open PowerPoint and click the "File" tab.
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Click "Open" and then "Browse." Navigate to the slide show presentation with the picture you want to cite. Double-click the file name to open the presentation.
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Scroll through the slide deck on the left side of the workspace or use the scroll bar on the right side of the screen to scroll to the slide with the picture to cite.
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Click the "Insert" tab. Click the "Text Box" button. The cursor changes to an upside-down cross.
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Press the left mouse button and draw a small box on the slide; positioning doesn't matter at this time. Type the number "1."
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Highlight the "1" and click the "Home" tab. Use the controls over the "Font" section to reduce the size of the number and change its color and font as appropriate.
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Click the edge of the "1" box. Drag it into place near the top-right corner of the picture.
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Click the "Insert" tab and click the "Text Box" button. Draw a text box along the bottom of the slide, being careful not to run off the edge of the slide.
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Type the picture's citation, such as author, text book, date and subject matter.
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Repeat the text-altering process with the controls in the "Home" tab and drag the citation into place at the bottom of the slide.
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Tips & Warnings
Unlike some of its Microsoft Office Suite partners, PowerPoint doesn't have the "footnote" capability you may know from Word and Excel, for example. Instead, PowerPoint users physically create their own citations through text boxes.
