Use a Picture as a Slide Background in Microsoft PowerPoint
You can use a picture as backgound for your slides in a PowerPoint presentation. If the picture is from the internet, you need to save it to the desktop before it can be used in the presentation. To save the picture, hold the control key on the keyboard and click on the picture. Then select Save image to the Desktop from the dropdown menu.

To use the picture as the slide background:
1. Open a PowerPoint presentation.
2. Click on Format -- Slide Background.
3. In the Background box, click the button under background fill and then click Fill Effects from that dropdown menu.

4. In the Fill Effects window, be sure the Picture tab is selected. Then click the Select Picture button at the bottom of the window. In the choose a Picture window, navigate to the desktop and select the picture you are using as the background, then click the Insert button. The picture will now show in the Fill Effects window. Click OK at the bottom of the window.
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