can I crop a photo into a circle on a PC?

It will always be a rectangle/square, but you can make it look like it is a
circle. You will need to do this in a paint program

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"jrebeccam" <jrebeccam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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You can make it look like a circle or oval in PowerPoint. Use the oval drawing
tool to create an object. Then right click it and go to Format Autoshape.
Under the Fill section on the Colors and Lines tab, click on the color box.
Click on Fill Effects in the dialog. Click on the Pictures tab and locate and
select your picture and click OK. Click on the Color box in the Line section
and set it to "No Line". You may need to drag on the selection hands of the
oval to reduce the distortion of the image.
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"jrebeccam" <jrebeccam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Why not just resize the image to fit within the borders
of the slide? Make sure that it's not larger than 7.5
inches tall or 10 inches wide. Do you know how to resize
a photo?
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You can also create a circular image on a transparent background in
Photoshop and save it as a PNG for import into PPT.

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