Picture Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013 for Windows

Tap on a selected picture on a Touch device and you will see a floatie spawning right there. In this case, you see the Picture floatie that provides formatting options for the tapped picture. In this tutorial, we'll explore various options within this floatie, as shown in Figure 1, below.

Figure 1: Tap on the required button within the floatie

To activate any of the options within the Picture floatie, you need to tap the required button, as shown in Figure 1, above.

Look again at the Picture floatie, and you will find buttons for formatting the tapped picture, as shown marked in Figure 2, below. The first four buttons (Paste, Cut, Copy, and Delete) have been already explained in our Using the Touch Floatie within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013 for Windows tutorial.

Figure 2: Picture floatie

The remaining buttons are explained below, as marked in Figure 2, above.

A. Style

Tap on the Style button to bring up the Style drop-down gallery, as shown in Figure 3, below. The Style drop-down gallery contains a collection of prebuilt styles. Note that within the Style drop-down gallery, you have to slide from the bottom to reveal more styles, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3: Style drop-down gallery

Tap on any of these Styles to apply it to your selected picture.

B. Crop

When you tap on this button, dark crop handles appear on the edge of the picture, as shown in Figure 4, below. We explain how you can crop a picture on a touch device while using Office 2013 in our Crop Pictures within PowerPoint Touch in Office 2013 for Windows tutorial.

Figure 4: Shape with crop handles

C. More Options

Tap on the down-arrow to bring up a drop-down menu with more formatting options for the selected picture, as shown in Figure 5, below.

Figure 5: More picture formatting options

Some of these options may be grayed out, if you have selected a single picture, or if there's no other slide object on your slide.

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