How to get a slide on Powerpoint as your background?

Question

I just made an A7X collage on Powerpoint and now I want it as my computer background. How do I do that?

Answer 1

I would create a blank slide and run a slideshow. Press Print Screen (Sys Rq on some keyboards) and paste that into MS Photo editor, or Paint, or GIMP or whatever bitmap editor you have on your system. Save that as a BMP, GIF or JPG (preferably BMP - while big, it will also be lossless compression wise, and support more than 256 colours).

Now from the Format menu (I think), pick "background" and apply that BMP as a background for the presentation.

Bit of a long way round, I know, but it's worked for me in the past :-)

Answer 2

Hi,

File > Save As

In the format section choose JPEG and in the options choose current slide or select slide.

-Jim