
It compresses solid areas of color while preserving sharp detail, such as the detail in line art, logos, or illustrations with text. The PNG file format is similar to GIF but it provides better color support. You want the contents of the Clipboard to appear as a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) picture. The JPEG file format supports 16 million colors and is best suited for photographs and complex graphics. You want the contents of the Clipboard to appear as a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) picture. GIF is also a good file format for line drawings, black and white images, small text that is only a few pixels high, and animation. The GIF file format is limited to 256 colors, and is therefore most effective for scanned images, such as illustrations, and less effective for color photographs. You want the contents of the Clipboard to appear as a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) picture. You want the contents of the Clipboard to appear as a Microsoft Office drawing object. You want the text to take on the formatting of the Office program you're pasting to.

You want the text to retain the formatting of the text from the other program or web page.

To specify the format that you want to paste the slide, text, or object as, click Paste, and then use the table below to select a format from the Use this format list.

Tip: If you'd prefer to use the keyboard you can press CTRL+ALT+V to invoke Paste Special.
