Importing object with transparent backgrounds

[Martinre]

In PP 2003 i could import objects from corel draw, microsoft photo editor
(with transparent back grounds) into slide and the backround would be
transparent. If I do the same with pp2007 the tranparent the background is
white. If i save the object to file and then use object insert it works but
it is a pain. Why and what was changed

 

[Ronsky]

Not sure why the difference but have you tried saving the object as a
PNG file with transparency and then import the PNG into PPT?

 

[bphuber]

This feature was dropped in the 2007 version. Bummer. There are a couple of
"add-in's", but I haven't had much success with them.
I have searched the web and found nothing that wll let me create the
wonderful tranparent backgrounds that existed in 2003 and previous versions.