Thanks for the tips, Echo! (I’ve been experimenting with short video tips lately, but this shows the great value of instead using carefully cropped still shots for scanability.) Looks like there’s lots more goodies in 2010 than 2007, which makes me wish we had 2010 where I work.
For the moment, guess I’ll have to content myself with filling a shape, or using the Picture Shape button for quick but non-circular results. Actually, your post’s inspired me and I can think of a couple of fairly ways to do this in 2007.
So when I get a chance, I’ll put together a post about it. Thanks again, Craig (P.S. It took me a while to get the pun in your post’s title. I blame the alien conspiracy!). Echo Swinford.
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Glad you found it useful, Craig. For 2007, you can insert a circle on the slide and then fill it with an image. Then go into the fill settings (right-click and choose Format Shape) and you can adjust the picture inside the shape. To do so, click Tile Picture as Texture, then you can change scale and offset, etc. Just make sure the pix is larger than the shape so it doesn’t tile.
Alternatively, you can always crop your pix to a square and then use the Picture Shape button to get the perfect circle. As a reminder (and I believe you understand this, but it seems I wasn’t perfectly clear in the original post), of course if you use the Picture Shape tool in 2007 and apply a “circle” shape to a rectangular (not square) picture, you’ll get an oval, not a perfect circle. This is the same in 2010 and 2013 if you use the Crop to Shape option to crop to a “circle” on a rectangular (not square) image — you’ll get an oval instead of a perfect circle. That’s one reason the aspect ratio option is such a convenient feature. Thanks for providing an easy place for me to add clarification!. Diane Knoche.