Okay, this is somewhat urgent, as it's for my final presentation in my PowerPoint class. The presentation is a children's story, and there will be images of sprite characters on a photographic background for each slide. I put together these sprite images in Paintshop Pro 6, and specifically set up the images to have transparent backgrounds. However, when I try to paste in the very first sprite, it has a white background around it which shows up very clearly against the photograph it's pasted on. This is terrible.. I *really* don't want that white background there. But PowerPoint won't let me get rid of it! I tried saving it as a jpg, a gif, and a bmp, and it wouldn't let me ungroup the picture so I could edit it. Then I read through the help files and saw that only wmf images can be edited. So fine, I saved it as a wmf and tried again. It still won't let me ungroup it! I am in a bit of a panic at this point, as this is the only week we have to work on this, and if I can't get these images arranged properly, I will probably have to design an entirely new presentation on the spot. This course has been nothing but trouble, and this final, this storybook, is the first thing all semester that I was happy to do. Please, PLEASE, if anybody knows what I'm doing wrong, how to get rid of these awful white boxes, I'm desperate for help..

If you have no white in the image then insert image into PP and open the picture toolbar. Look for what looks like a blue pen (if you hover over it its set transparent colour). Select the tool then click on the colour you want to be transparent. I've found it best if in Paint Shop Pro if you set your graphic on a background thats something near the PP slide background and then choose this to be transparent it looks best as there is no fringing round the image. Hope this is clear and helps

Actually, this does help, as it confirms an idea I've had but haven't been able to try yet. I did see and try to use the Transparent Color button, but there *is* white in my image, so at the time it didn't help, and as I was already all wrought up, I didn't see how I could make it work. Looking back on it with a clearer head, I realize that I should take the image into PSP and either change the image's white to off-white, or change the background to a color the image doesn't use at all. Then the Transparent Color *should* work. Thank you for the post--I wasn't sure if I was on the right track or not. I'll be sure to try it as soon as I get home again!

Yep.. that did it. I changed the background color of the images and tried using Set Transparent Color, and this time it was fine. I feel dumb now. Thank you for your help!