when I go to format picture-> text box, the options i would use to put the picture amongst the text in Word are greyed out there in powerpoint.

If it's like the rest of the office suite, you ought to be able to right click the picture, and select from the wrapping options. What you want is for the pic to be "in line with text." Hope that helps.

NOTE: All pictures in PowerPoint are inserted as "floating", so that you can easily place a picture exactly where you want it to appear. This occurs regardless of the method that you use to insert the picture (copy and paste, or insert the picture from file). There is no method available to insert a picture as inline in PowerPoint.

am trying to find workarounds..

Perhaps format it in word and then copy the whole paragraph, pic and all, into a text box in ppt.? I wish I could try it on my end, but the office box doesn't have ppt.

In my experience, Powerpoint works differently than Word in this case. The text box is treated like an object on the slide just like the picture is, so the picture itself doesn't give you the option to put it "in line with text". I've gotten around this issue by breaking up my text into separate text boxes, which I shape to fit around the picture. In some cases, this is actually easier than dealing with the wrapping nonsense in Word.

tried that, pie - doesn't work.

I think the answer here is to find some other way of laying out the slide, by breaking the text up into separate text boxes or similar.

I don't know which version of PowerPoint you're using, but in mine (2007) the options for text wrapping ("inline with text" etc) aren't just greyed out, they aren't there at all.

Powerpoint doesn't treat text and images in the same way that Word does, and it's designed for bullet-points and images in simple layouts, rather than long paragraphs of text flowing around inline images. I think the answer here is to find some other way of getting the layout you want, for instance by splitting the text into multiple textboxes or rethinking the slide in general.

I am trying text boxes now.

designing a poster for someone, complicated template is in powerpoint, if i could convert to indesign i would be happy. tried that firstm, didnt work.

Did you get it sorted? If not, email me with your phone number, I'll fire up the work laptop and we'll see if we can get through this together.

still working on it. Im in the uk ya know, prolly not call-time! thanks tho.

ah i see you're in the UK too...

anyway i seem to be ok for now on the text box method, thank you everyone!

thanks everyone, I made a pretty poster in powerpoint that looks like a newspaper!