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From: Lisa Snider
Date: Apr 18, 2014 11:56AM

Hi Everyone,

I was making a PowerPoint presentation accessible, and had an image
question. In all slides, I use a background image. It isn't important at
all.

In some slides I use images, which are important. I alted those images, but
then I didn't want to alt the background image. I did this because when I
made the presentation into a PDF, the background alt showed and not the
image alts (when I mouse over).

If this were a website, I would just do the null "", but how can I achieve
this in a PowerPoint? Is there a way to use the null here?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Lisa



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