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This article explains how to put a picture that is one shape (a "square peg") inside an image of another shape (a "round hole" - or star, elipse, octagon, etc) - using Microsoft PowerPoint. Original title:   How to put a square peg into a round hole - in pictures Recently, I've been using PowerPoint to make the thumbnail image  for my posts. This means that I own the copyright of the pictures, so can share them without worrying about copyright issues . One approach I've used is to find an interesting copyright-free picture that is related to the theme of the post, and then put it inside a shape that adds some visual interest or has some words along side it.  Another thing that I'm going to try is using multiple pictures in this way to make a more-interesting-than-usual collage. How to put a picture inside a shape NB PowerPoint commands are based on Office 2007 and 2010 - but the same principles most-likely apply in other versions where...

This article is about options for showing the contents of a PowerPoint file inside your blog. Previously I've described how to load content from MS Word to your blog . But some people have material in PowerPoint (or other presentation software) files, that they want to show in their blog.   So far, I've identified three options for doing this. These approaches should work on any PowerPoint formatted presentation, no matter what tool it was prepared with - except of course if it was Google Docs in which case you go straight to option 2. Option 1: Each slide as an image Follow these steps: In PowerPoint, choose Save-as , and choose an image format (eg .png).    When the system asks if you want all slides or just the current one, choose All. Upload all the image files that were created to your blog - it's your choice whether you put them all in the same post, or one-per-post. I usually upload them firstly to Picasa web albums  or ano...