Here’s the situation: You have the perfect picture for your presentation, however you want to get rid of some of the excess borders around it to better fit your slide. How is this accomplished? To do this, you would use a process called Cropping. In this case, Cropping can be defined as taking the original image and eliminating certain parts of it. This process can be a bit of a pain, especially if you don’t have an image manipulation program such as Adobe Photoshop. Luckily, Microsoft PowerPoint has its own picture cropping utility that is both simple to use and effective.

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