: How to find name of original image in PowerPoint presentation? I found an old PowerPoint slide I made, but I really want to find the original image that I imported to the slide. Is there

@Odierno310

I copied the image, pasted it into/attached to an email. It is an ugly, horrible way to get the title, but it works.

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@Karen819

adding .zip to the end of the pptx and opening it in xml mode worked a treat.
I could see what type of picture and the name of the picture.
I could then go back to the designer and ask them to change JPG pictures to PNG because that does not degrade in quality

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@Angie364

Save the Powerpoint file as a PDF. Make sure that 'Document Properties' are checked in the Save options. Open the PDF file and hover on the image for a second.

The full path will be displayed like a tool-tip. I think this is the path on the authoring-computer where the image file lived. So you should probably be looking on the hard-drive of that computer to find the original image files.

Hope it helps!

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@Looi7658678

What I ended up doing was pretty ugly. Since I knew what computer the image was on, I just added the most likely folders to Microsoft Photo Gallery, and it automatically shows a thumbnail of every image in the selected folders. An ugly hack, but it found my image in seconds.

So it isn't really an answer to the question as stated, but a solution to my problem.

It would be nice if MS added this feature to power point: save the name of the image you loaded!

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@Pope1402555

If your powerpoint file is an .pptx you can try this:
Rename your samplename.pptx into samplename.zip.
Open the zip-file and check all subfolders if there is a pic in it. Hopefully it has its original name.

Yes, new powerpoint standard (.pptx) is a zip-file containing xml-files and others.

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@Nimeshi706

I don't think there's a direct way. The only method I'm aware of is to select the image and choose Format > Picture... and look at the Alt Text field, specifically the Description. PPT seems to insert the name of the file (without a suffix) as the alt text description.



At least in PPT 14.4.8 on the Mac, this is the only location of the actual file name. In this slide, Wet_horiz.jpg was the inserted image.

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