Pictures in Power Point

[Guest]

I recently prepared a presentation. When I played the slide show on my
desktop PC it looked great. When it was played from a laptop through the
projector all the pictures showed white backgrounds even though I had
inserted transparent backgrounds into the presentation. Can anyone please
help? I have looked at microsoft but cant find my particular answer.

Thanks

 

[Echo S]

You mentioned you "inserted transparent backgrounds" into the presentation.
What exactly did you mean by that?

I'm asking because you can't really have transparent backgrounds on a slide.
There is an addin that does something kind of similar, though -- perhaps you
used it? Or if you meant you created transparent parts in the pictures
themselves, how did you do that?

What version of PPT are you using? What version was on the laptop?

 

[Guest]

Its Powerpoint 2003. I inserted a picture and then on the picture toolbar
made the background transparent so that i matched the colour of the slide.
Then when it was on the laptop the background showed up white like the
original picture. It was so annoying.

You mentioned you "inserted transparent backgrounds" into the presentation.
What exactly did you mean by that?

I'm asking because you can't really have transparent backgrounds on a slide.
There is an addin that does something kind of similar, though -- perhaps you
used it? Or if you meant you created transparent parts in the pictures
themselves, how did you do that?

What version of PPT are you using? What version was on the laptop?

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I recently prepared a presentation. When I played the slide show on my
desktop PC it looked great. When it was played from a laptop through the
projector all the pictures showed white backgrounds even though I had
inserted transparent backgrounds into the presentation. Can anyone please
help? I have looked at microsoft but cant find my particular answer.

Thanks

 

[Echo S]

Okay, thanks.

What version of PPT was on the laptop?

My guess is it was PPT 2002 (aka PPT XP), and it needed to have the latest
service packs applied.

Can't make white colors become transparent in PowerPoint 2002/XP
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00323.htm

This FAQ was written before 2003 was available, but it stands to reason that
if you can't make white areas transparent in PPT 2002 without SP2, then
transparent areas might also turn white.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

Its Powerpoint 2003. I inserted a picture and then on the picture toolbar
made the background transparent so that i matched the colour of the slide.
Then when it was on the laptop the background showed up white like the
original picture. It was so annoying.

You mentioned you "inserted transparent backgrounds" into the
presentation.
What exactly did you mean by that?

I'm asking because you can't really have transparent backgrounds on a
slide.
There is an addin that does something kind of similar, though -- perhaps
you
used it? Or if you meant you created transparent parts in the pictures
themselves, how did you do that?

What version of PPT are you using? What version was on the laptop?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
What's new in PPT 2007? http://www.echosvoice.com/2007.htm
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/powerpointannoy/
PPTLive! Sept 17-20, 2006 http://www.pptlive.com

I recently prepared a presentation. When I played the slide show on my
desktop PC it looked great. When it was played from a laptop through
the
projector all the pictures showed white backgrounds even though I had
inserted transparent backgrounds into the presentation. Can anyone
please
help? I have looked at microsoft but cant find my particular answer.

Thanks