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Bob
Hi, and thanks in advance for your help. I have a number of pictures (jpeg and bmp format) which I would like to use to make powerpoint templates. I have tried when inserting them into a slide (one at a time) to save the slide as a .pot, but when I try to access it to click to apply it as a design template in a presentation, it only shows a blank slide. Please help.

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