In PowerPoint 2003, if you clicked on an image, a toolbar would appear, on which there was a button labelled ‘Set Transparent Color’. This option allows you to click on a solid colour within the image, and that colour is made transparent.
This is especially useful for images with a white-background, which you want to insert into a presentation that uses a coloured, gradient, or image background.
In PowerPoint 2007, the same feature exists, but it’s a little difficult to find.
Click once on an image in your presentation to select it. A new toolbar will become available on the ribbon called ‘Format’. Select the ‘Format’ toolbar and click on ‘Recolor’. At the end of the ‘recolor’ menu, you will see the ‘Set transparent colour…’ option.
PowerPoint 2007: Set transparent color
#1 by Cristos L-C on September 16, 2009 - 7:28 am
Thanks! That was a big help — I knew of the feature from 2003, but couldn’t figure out how to access it in 2007.