![]() You may already be familiar with the basics of Microsoft PowerPoint, but there's more to a great presentation than just bullets and text. This weekly series provides quick tips that will improve the look of your slide decks and better engage your audience. Staff instructors Garrick Chow, Nick Brazzi, and Jess Stratton provide new PowerPoint tips every Wednesday, focusing on topics such as creating balance in your slides, formatting, working with photos and video, animating text and objects, and more. Plus, learn how to extend PowerPoint and connect to cloud accounts such as OneDrive and Google Drive. It doesn't matter whether you use PowerPoint for Windows, PowerPoint for Mac, or work exclusively with Office 365; these tips will help all users maximize their productivity and success with PowerPoint. Note: Because this is an ongoing series, viewers will not receive a certificate of completion. Instructor •. Jess Stratton is a staff author and technology consultant who specializes in productivity software and mobile tech. Click the picture that you want to change the transparency of a color for, and then click the Format Picture tab. Under Adjust, click Recolor, click Set Transparent Color, and then click the color in the picture or image that you want to make transparent. ![]() For over 10 years, Jess Stratton has operated her own technology consulting business, creating and maintaining databases for both enterprise and small-to-medium businesses, building websites, setting up networks, and coaching teams, employees, and individuals to harness the latest desktop and mobile technology for increased productivity. Jess is now a full-time staff author at lynda.com, in addition to being a regular and regarded presenter at Lotus Notes conferences and a contributing author for several industry print and web magazines, textbooks, podcasts, webcasts, and other popular sites, including Lifehacker.com. You can find Jess on her website at or follow her on Twitter @NerdGirlJess. Garrick Chow has authored 75+ training courses, and is a presenter at Macworld and AIGA. Garrick Chow is a senior staff author at Lynda.com, and has authored dozens of courses, covering a diverse range of topics. He regularly leads live classes and seminars at private companies, government agencies, colleges, and universities. He has been a presenter at the Macworld conference, and at events for design associations such as AIGA and UCDA. His interests include audio and music production, digital lifestyle tools, and fitness-related apps and gadgets. When not sitting in front of a computer screen, Garrick can be found playing with the indie-rock band The Jellybricks () or trail running. Visit him at or follow him on Twitter. By: Garrick Chow course • 2h 12m 30s • 10,597 viewers • Course Transcript - [Narrator] My name is Jess Stratton and welcome to PowerPoint Tips Weekly. This week, I am going to talk about some neat transparency settings you can use in PowerPoint. In a future episode, Nick Bozzy is going to talk about removing the background from images which is fantastic when you have a busy background. But there's a very quick tool you can use when you only need to remove one color. Let's take a look at this slide. This slide can be improved tremendously by removing the excess white background and relocating the image. You don't need a separate graphic arts program. PowerPoint has a tool just for this. I'm going to select the image, change to the format tab which appears once I select the image. From here, I'll select Color. I can click Set Transparent Color. This allows me to choose one color from this photo and make all occurrences of that photo transparent. This is great because we have this white background that can go. I'll give it one click and instantly, the photo •.
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