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Determine if a picture is a bitmap or a drawn picture
 

Do one of the following:

ShowIf the picture hasn't yet been added to your work

Do one of the following:

ShowIf the picture is already in your work

  1. Click the picture's adjustment handle (adjustment handle: A diamond-shaped handle used to adjust the appearance but not the size of most AutoShapes. For example, you can adjust a rounded rectangle to be more or less rounded.).
  2. Drag the mouse to stretch the picture until it's as large as possible.

If individual pixels (pixel: A single unit of measurement that your computer's display hardware uses to paint images on your screen. These units, which often appear as tiny dots, compose the pictures displayed by your screen.) appear, and the picture looks blurry, the picture is a bitmap (bitmap: A picture made from a series of small dots, much like a piece of graph paper with certain squares filled in to form shapes and lines. When stored as files, bitmaps usually have the extension .bmp.). If the picture grows smoothly and pixels do not appear, the picture is drawn.

Note  To return the picture to its previous size, on the Edit menu, click Undo.

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