creating a background from a jpeg....

Can you create a background from a picture. It seems to tell me that it has
to be a ppt slide to work.

thanks

It depends on exactly what you want to do as to how to do it, but I would
go to the View menu and choose Master and Slide Master. I would insert the
picture there and set the brightness up and the contrast down. Then I would
resize the picture to cover the whole screen. This picture will show up in
the background of every slide.
--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

=?Utf-8?B?bWljaGFlbA==?= wrote in
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Can you create a background from a picture. It seems to tell me that
it has to be a ppt slide to work.

thanks

"more info...

I am going to view -master-slide master....however, at this point I am lost.
I do not see format in that area.

Yes, you can insert your image as a background into your presentation and
when you save, it will become a PowerPoint presentation with a .ppt
extension.

With PowerPoint open, click on Format, Background, click the down arrow and
select Fill Effects, Pictures, and navigate to your picture file once
selected you have the option to apply this image to all slides or just the
one your working on.

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


"michael" wrote in message
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Can you create a background from a picture. It seems to tell me that it
has
to be a ppt slide to work.

thanks

=?Utf-8?B?bWljaGFlbA==?= wrote in
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"more info...

I am going to view -master-slide master....however, at this point I am
lost. I do not see format in that area.

What version are you using? In 2003, I can open the master slide view and
go to the Format menu and then choose Background. From there, I have to
select Fill Effects from the pull down menu (that is mainly used for
picking a color). This brings up a dialogue box. I can now click on the
Picture tab and click the button to select a picture. Note that if the
picture is not in the right perspective (4:3), it will be distorted. For
this reason, you might choose the option I recommended earlier of just
inserting the picture here (Insert Menu, choose Picture, choose From
File). Then you can drag it from a corner to fill as much of the screen
as you want without distorting but not necessarily filling the entire
screen or filling the entire screen but cutting off some of the picture
around the edges.

--David

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David M. Marcovitz
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.PowerfulPowerPoint.com/

Got it...THANKYOU