paste to replace an image

Question

In ms office 2003 when you did a paste function with an image, when a previous image was selected, the old image would be replaced and the old image's size and position would be applied to the new image. In 2010 it just pastes the new image wherever in the default size and retains the old image. How do I make it work like it used to in 2010. I have lots of images that I sized and positioned and now need to be updated to new images and I would prefer to not have to re-size and position them all again individually. Also I don't want to have to save the images individually, just copy and paste from another office product (specifically right now I am pasting excel charts as images in a power point slide but would like to know how to do it in general for other office programs as well.)

Answer 1

Office 97 had a weird habit of letting you paste images into selected text placeholders, as I recall.  That might be what you're remembering.  As near as anyone can tell, it was a bug and was corrected in later versions.

Sometimes bugs are useful to some of us, eh? 

I have a free add-in, PPTools StarterSet, that includes a tool that lets you memorize the size and position of any selected shape, then match that size and position on any other shape or shapes with a single click.

http://www.pptools.com/starterset/

Answer 2

As Steve said.

It wouldn't be too dificult to recode PowerPoint to Paste / replace images too if you need something automatic.

Answer 3

it may have been how Office 95, 2000, or xp worked instead but I am fairly sure that they all functioned essentially the same.

Answer 4

I don't remember 2003 ever acting like that.

If you resort to saving the new images you can use the "Change Picture" function

Otherwise  if you are doing this a lot I'm sure you would be able to find someone to write an AddIn to do it for you.