Re: Importing pics from internet

In article <A9F1ABA1-B108-4331-9408-0E9803197183@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Emily wrote:
> I am doing a research on down syndrome for biology and need pictures of John
> Langdon Haydon Down and others. I will present it as a powerpoint and I have
> to write the url from where I received the pic under the pic. I can only save
> it as .art or .bmp I don't have any other choices just those two.

Are you an AOL user? AOL has some odd habits with graphics and I think converting them
to ART format is one of them. PPT can't insert those. Have you tried BMP instead? PPT
is fine with BMP files.



>
> "Echo S" wrote:
>
> > How are you saving the files when you save them from the internet?
> >
> > Do you have permissions to use the images?
> >
> > --
> > Echo [MS PPT MVP]
> > http://www.echosvoice.com
> >
> > "Emily" <Emily@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1422CDBE-9D6D-4CF0-A500-C22DC74FEC83@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > I find pictures and save them on my comuter. When I am in powerpoint and
> > do
> > > the insert; picture; from file, usually as thumbnails I see a preview, but
> > > with these I can't. I press insert and a pop up comes up asking me to
> > CONVERT
> > > FILE FROM and gives me a list. I tried all of them but none work. It says
> > an
> > > ERROR OCCURED WHILE IMPORTING THIS FILE. Help!
> >
> >
> >
>

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