How do I insert a GIF graphic in Powerpoint?

[OfficeAnimal]

I am using PPT 2007 on Windows 7.
How do I insert a GIF graphic into the corner of a Powerpoint presentation as a logo? It need to appear in every slide including the title slide.

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[strongm]

Put it on the slide master.

 

[OfficeAnimal]

I am using a template I downloaded from Office Online
Light Rays - Teal Template Segoe.potx

Okay, I put the image on the Master Title Slide and save the file.
The image stays on the title slide, my question now is, how do I get it to appear in the same place on all slides? Furthermore, how do I put it in what in Word would be called a Frame so that other text will wrap around it?




"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[strongm]

> how do I get it to appear in the same place on all slides

Er ... if you put it on the theme's slide master that's exactly what will happen. So I'm guessing you are not putting it on the slide master (which is a very specific and important part of a theme:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/powerpoint-help/what-is-a-slide-master-HA010280572.aspx)

>how do I put it in what in Word would be called a Frame so that other text will wrap around it?

Slightly oddly Powerpoint does not have the ability to autowrap text around frames or shapes. You have to do it manually I'm afraid.

 

[OfficeAnimal]

I wasn't working with a Theme. I was working with that template I downloaded.

As it turns out, these templates you can download can't be modified to personal tastes. What you see is what you get. I solved the problem by creating a Template of my own, and that behaves as one should expect.

Thanks for trying to help. You weren't to know that Microsoft is always right.

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[strongm]

Erm - templates have themes, I'm afraid, and still have slide masters.

>these templates you can download can't be modified to personal tastes

I've never encountered that problem, so I've just downloaded that exact same template, and on my PCs the template's slide master can be modified exactly as expected. So I'm not sure what is wrong on your PC.

 

[mintjulep]

There are separate masters for title slide and other slides.

 

[strongm]

I think you'll find that you are confusing what Powerpoint calls 'layouts' with the 'slide master'

 

[OfficeAnimal]

I am still frustrated. I am not worried about layouts, the standard ones available are fine by me. I want a different, unique background, with images, behind every slide in my presentation. I can put an image on a slide, but I want the same image to appear in the same place on all slides.

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

 

[SkipVought]

I can put an image on a slide, but I want the same image to appear in the same place on all slides.

YOU can put an image on a slide MASTER, not just a slide!

Skip,
[sub]
Just traded in my OLD subtlety...
for a NUance![/sub]

 

[strongm]

And I've already suggested how to do that. I'm afraid I just don't know what is different on your setup from every other Powerpoint config I have encountered.

Modifying the Slide Masters is the standard way of doing EXACTLY what you describe.

 

[OfficeAnimal]

Thanks folks.

I have discovered the difference between the two top thumbnails in the left sidebar.
All is well now.

Cheers

"Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)