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Powerpoint 2002 editing pictures
I am using Powerpoint 2002 for figures of MRIs for an article in a medical
journal. I need to remove the patient's date of birth from the MRI but do not know how to go about doing this. Any help would be most appreciated. |
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Powerpoint 2002 editing pictures
PowerPoint has very limited picture editing capabilities. Your best bet
is to use a program designed for editing pictures. Also, you need to be careful about your confidentiality constraints. If you are removing the birthdates to protect confidentiality, just about anything PowerPoint can do will not be good enough for the electronic file. In PowerPoint you can use the cropping tool, or you can cover up the birthdates with a box. These things would not show the birthdates when printed, but anyone with access to the electronic file could uncrop or move the box (unless you export the slide as a picture). I remember a case a few years ago where some government agency had posted files to the Internet with certain confidential information blacked out. Unfortunately, the black boxes could easily be removed revealing the names that were supposed to be hidden. This wasn't in PowerPoint, but the same priniciple applies. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ =?Utf-8?B?cmlzcGluZQ==?= wrote in : I am using Powerpoint 2002 for figures of MRIs for an article in a medical journal. I need to remove the patient's date of birth from the MRI but do not know how to go about doing this. Any help would be most appreciated. |
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Powerpoint 2002 editing pictures
In article , Rispine wrote:
I am using Powerpoint 2002 for figures of MRIs for an article in a medical journal. I need to remove the patient's date of birth from the MRI but do not know how to go about doing this. Any help would be most appreciated. You can't modify pictures/images in PowerPoint but there are several other possibilities: - Insert the MRI image then use a rectangle or other shape drawn in PPT to cover information you don't want to display. The information will still be available to anyone who has a copy of the presentation; if that's not acceptable, take it a step further before releasing the file: Select both the image and the rectangle covering the patient info; press Ctrl+C to make a copy; choose Edit, Paste Special and choose PNG; delete the original image and rectangle. That'll give you a single image rather than an image plus rectangle; the patient info will be permanently obscured. You can also use an image editing program like PhotoShop, PaintShop, Corel PhotoPaint etc. to obscure/eliminate the patient info on a copy of the original MRI image and then insert that into PPT. ----------------------------------------- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
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Powerpoint 2002 editing pictures
If you choose the "compress pictures" option on the Picture Toolbar (after
using the cropping tool on the toolbar), you can eliminate the areas of the cropped picture so it can't be "uncropped." This may help. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com "David M. Marcovitz" wrote in message 48.16... PowerPoint has very limited picture editing capabilities. Your best bet is to use a program designed for editing pictures. Also, you need to be careful about your confidentiality constraints. If you are removing the birthdates to protect confidentiality, just about anything PowerPoint can do will not be good enough for the electronic file. In PowerPoint you can use the cropping tool, or you can cover up the birthdates with a box. These things would not show the birthdates when printed, but anyone with access to the electronic file could uncrop or move the box (unless you export the slide as a picture). I remember a case a few years ago where some government agency had posted files to the Internet with certain confidential information blacked out. Unfortunately, the black boxes could easily be removed revealing the names that were supposed to be hidden. This wasn't in PowerPoint, but the same priniciple applies. --David -- David M. Marcovitz Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology Loyola College in Maryland Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_ http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/ =?Utf-8?B?cmlzcGluZQ==?= wrote in : I am using Powerpoint 2002 for figures of MRIs for an article in a medical journal. I need to remove the patient's date of birth from the MRI but do not know how to go about doing this. Any help would be most appreciated. |
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