This article was adapted from Microsoft Office System Inside Out by Michael J. Young and Michael Halvorson. Visit Microsoft Learning to buy this book.

You can save a snapshot of any object contained in a slide—for example, a placeholder and its text, a picture, an AutoShape object, an Office diagram, or a chart—into a graphics file. You can then edit the graphics file (with an appropriate vector or bitmap graphics editing program), insert it in another program, display it in a Web page, or even insert it back into a PowerPoint slide as an imported picture.

Save an object as a picture

1. Right-click the object, and then on the shortcut menu, click Save As Picture.
2. In the Save As Picture dialog box, in the File name box, type a name for the picture file .
3. In the Save in box, specify the folder you want to store the picture file in, and then select an appropriate type of file format in the Save as type box.