how can i put pictures on a powerpoint using a mac?

Answer 1

Get the Mac version of Microsoft Office.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/office2004/office2004.aspx?pid=office2004

For a free alternative, try NeoOffice:

http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php

Answer 2

Hi

Sealife gave you the best short answer, but there's a lot of ways to get pictures into PowerPoint.

You can simply drag pictures from finder onto slides.

You can copy and paste pictures from the computer's clipboard, but this is not recommended if you plan to share you presentation files with Microsoft Windows users because their version has incomplete picture support for this type of picture. They will be prompted to install a new version of Quicktime onto their computers, but that won't help them. PowerPoint for Windows is simply broken in this regard.

You can put pictures into slide objects that have Fill properties such as shapes and various graph objects. You right-click (or control-click) on objects and choose to Format them. Then choose the Fill option and then look for the Picture option. Navigate to a picture and there you go!

If you have a lot of pictures all in one folder and you want to put them into a presentation one picture per slide you need to use an add-in. I put a link to such an add-in (yea, I wrote it) in the sources.

-Jim Gordon
Microsoft Mac MVP

MVPs are independent and do not work for Microsoft
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/

Answer 3

I'm assuming you have powerpoint already.
go to

insert
picture
from file

search for the picture you want to put in and click on it