An Easy Way to Save Time in PowerPoint

One of my favorite features in PowerPoint 2007 and beyond is that I can right click and swap out images.  This is really helpful if you have effects or animations applied to your images.

In the older versions of PowerPoint, you had to delete the image and replace it with another.  Then you’d have to reapply the effects and animations.  That’s not the case anymore.

All you do now is right click on the image, and select Change Picture.  From there you select a new image. And voila! You have a new image with all of the animations and effects intact.

Here’s tutorial that gives you some more detail so you can see it in action.

PowerPoint Tutorial

Click here to view the tutorial.

So you can see, it’s pretty easy and a big time saver, especially if you pre-build animations to be reused.  It definitely comes in handy if you build rapid elearning courses.

Do you have any simple time saving tips?