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In case it's of interest to anyone else, the method I used was:

>1) Open your graphic
>2) Get the image size info and write it down. Make sure you can read your writing :-)
>3) File: New: Use the size info from above (I think it defaults to the same
>as the grahic you already have open). Select a transparent background with
>the appropriate radio button
>4) Go into the original graphic, use the magic wand to select your white
>background, then inverse selection, copy and paste it into the new one. You
>should be able to just drag it over with the "move" tool, if you have
>enough monitor space to see both at once
>5) Err that's it.

thought I'm sure any of the other ways suggested would have worked equally
well.

From someone else's suggestion, I then selected the area just around the
new graphic and repeated the process to get rid of the excess transparent
space around the graphic.

Thanks again to everyone who responded.

Ben

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