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[Zye84]

I worked on a power point presentation at school and the transparencies
worked fine. They also work fine at the comps at work. All the versions
I've been using have been 2002. My Power Point at home won't make anything
but black be transparent in a bitmap picture. I even tried adding new
pictures, and the same happens. Is there something I can do to fix this or
is this an instalation failure?

 

[Echo S]

I worked on a power point presentation at school and the transparencies
worked fine. They also work fine at the comps at work. All the versions
I've been using have been 2002. My Power Point at home won't make anything
but black be transparent in a bitmap picture. I even tried adding new
pictures, and the same happens. Is there something I can do to fix this or
is this an instalation failure?

It might be this:

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

Or it might be that the color you're trying to make transparent makes up
only a few pixels in your picture. For example, say you have an image with
what looks like a white background. That white might be made up of a variety
of pixels, and they won't all be RGB=255,255,255. Some might be 255,254,255
and others might be 254,255,255, and others will be something similar to
those, but not exactly those.

The transparency wand in PPT only changes pixels of the *exact* color you've
chosen. So in the example above, maybe only 255,255,255 pixels become
transparent, and there aren't enough of them to make a difference.

If that's the problem, then see the links to two transparency tutorials at
Graphics/Transparency/Etc.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00224.htm

 

[Zye84]

No, I'm sort of advanced at editing pics and things, after all, the
presentation I'm talking about now had no flaws on the computers at school
nor at work because everything was saved with the correct transparency
settings on each pic. And as I said, it's only black that can become
transparent, white and all other colors will not change. I wouldn't be
complaining about this normally because I could just play around with the
colors until making black the transparent color wouldn't mess up the pics
themselves, but I can't do it on the exsisting presentation because it has
very complex things going on with each pic at specific times. (there is an
average of 5-10 actions with each pic to do a certain effect I wanted with
each) I wish I could show you the thing, but its over 34 MB. I really think
it's a instalation prob, because a link is not even in my start button
menu(s).

 

[Echo S]

So did you try the first link I gave you? It suggests installing SP-2 for
Office XP. Do you have that SP installed?

I don't understand this:

a link is not even in my start button
menu(s).

A link to what?

If you think it's an installation problem, then I'd suggest trying a Detect
and Repair.

 

[Zye84]

You know, "Start, Programs, 'certain program.'" And no, I don't have SP2
installed because when I did, it screwed up my computer instead of fixing
it....Or is this something else? if it is, I need a direct link to it, half
the things for SP2 that I tried to download wouldn't work because of my dial
up connection.

 

[Echo S]

I'm talking about Office XP SP-2, not Windows XP SP-2. Are we talking about
the same SP-2?

Here's the link I gave you earlier:

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

That link leads to a MS KB article about things fixed with Office SP SP-2.

And that article has a link to an "overview of Office XP SP-2" article.

And *that* overview article gives you links to Office XP SP-2.

Sorry it's not more straightforward, but you'll have to talk to Microsoft
about that. I'm just a user like you.

As far as there not being a shortcut in your programs files from your Start
menu (thanks for explaining what you were referring to there), that doesn't
necessarily mean that the installation isn't correct. Sure, it might, but
it's not a given. So sure, try Help/Detect and Repair before you go the SP-2
route, especially if you think it's an installation problem.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

You know, "Start, Programs, 'certain program.'" And no, I don't have SP2
installed because when I did, it screwed up my computer instead of fixing
it....Or is this something else? if it is, I need a direct link to it, half
the things for SP2 that I tried to download wouldn't work because of my dial
up connection.