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I am running a fully updated Microsoft Powerpoint 2016 running on Windows 7 SP1.
I have an annoying problem when I insert images into a slide. Whether it's a PNG or JPG file, after I insert them into a slide they get automatically shrunk down to a tiny thumbnail (e.g. 100 pixels wide at 100% "zoom"), and when I try to resize them to make them bigger they look extremely pixellated.
I double checked the resolution of those images and they are big (e.g. 1920x1080) and open correctly in other programs. The strange thing is that this only happens to some PNGs/JPGs and not others... I have no idea why this is.
I have tried clicking on the Insert Image
button in the ribbon, dragging the picture into the slide from Explorer, or copying it over from Windows Image Viewer to no avail....
Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? Thank you.
1You mention that the images are big. What constitutes big (as measured in pixels)? – Steve Rindsberg – 2017-11-30T18:55:27.663
1This'll sound like an odd question, but there's a reason for it: what happens if you insert the same image (via Insert Image button) several times on the same slide. Do all of the inserted images appear at the same size? – Steve Rindsberg – 2017-12-02T15:55:40.233
@SteveRindsberg YES. I tried inserting the same image five times into the same slide (via the Insert Image button), and they are all imported as the same, tiny size... – hpy – 2017-12-02T18:55:54.760
1Can you post one of these images someplace where we can download it and have a look? Meanwhile you might try running them in batch through a program like IrfanView (free, www.irfanview.com), not downsampling them but setting dpi to 96 and saving to a new name. See if that makes any difference. – Steve Rindsberg – 2017-12-04T00:21:16.160
@SteveRindsberg I've uploaded two examples (one JPEG and one PNG) to here: http://www.solarsendit.net/df1i881eJLle7byc I also tried setting the DPI and saving as a new image via IrfanView and it worked!!! What does this mean?
– hpy – 2017-12-04T17:24:58.830