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How to crop image to text in Powerpoint?

In Powerpoint (15.13.1 for Mac OS X) I can find the option to crop an image to a shape but I can't find how to crop it to text. Can anyone enlighten me please ?

Solution

  • There's PowerPoint 2010, 2013 and 2016 but no 2015. Which do you have?

    There's no way I know to crop a picture to text, but you can fake it. In (as I recall) PPT 2013 or maybe 2010 and later you can do this:

    Insert a picture and send it behind the text you want to fill with a picture.

    Select the picture then hold down Ctrl while you click the text to select it too. It has to be done in this order or it won't work.

    Under Drawing Tools, the Format tab, Insert Shapes group, click Merge Shapes and choose Intersect.

    Another trick is to intersect the text with a plain rectangle. This converts the text to a shape that can be filled with a picture.