saving an object as a gif file in powerpoint 2000

[hornseagirl]

Although I am on office xp at home the place I am doing my advanced
ECDL presentaion course is 2000; I need to create and object e.g circle
in a square, group it and save it as a gif file. in XP you just right
click the object and go to "save pictue as" etc BUT in 2000 there is no
such option and the file/save as on the tool bar saves the whole slide.
HELP PLEASE........... I am new to this google group. CHEERS

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Although I am on office xp at home the place I am doing my advanced
ECDL presentaion course is 2000; I need to create and object e.g circle
in a square, group it and save it as a gif file. in XP you just right
click the object and go to "save pictue as" etc BUT in 2000 there is no
such option and the file/save as on the tool bar saves the whole slide.
HELP PLEASE........... I am new to this google group. CHEERS

One trick is to scale the group up to fill the slide, then save the slide.
Or if the group of shapes isn't proportional to the slide, create a new
presentation, use File, Page Setup to set the slide size to something
proportional to your group, copy/paste the group into the new slide, scale to
fill slide and then export.