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Have you ever needed to make a PowerPoint from a folder of images, but
dread the Insert, Picture, From File repetitive clicking? 


To make a Quick PowerPoint (2003) from a folder of images:

Start with all your images in a folder on your computer.  The folder
can even be on a network drive or a flash drive.

Open Power Point.  Click Insert, the Picture, then New Photo Album.

Insert Picture from file/disk. 

Select the correct folder.

Click the 1st image, then hold down Shift ask you scroll down and click
the last image.  All should have a blue box around them.

Click Insert.

If you click the 1st image in Pictures in Album, you will see the image
previewed to the right.
You can remove it, flip it, adjust brightness or contrast using the
icons below it.  Click on the next to do the next.

You can use the arrows below the list to change the order, moving an
image up or down.

Now go to the Slide Layout section.  Do you want the images to fill the
slides?  Have a border and 1 to a slide, two per slide? What kind of
frames around them?  Beveled edges?

Now look at Design Template to select and overall look if you want
one.
Click Browse, the Presentation Designs, then click one.

To set the slide transition time, go to Slide Show, Slide Transition,
Advance Slide, choose Automatically after 4 seconds, Apply to All
Slides; unclick On Mouse Click).

To loop, go to Slide Show, Set Up Show, click Loop continuously. until
“Esc”

Save the presentation.



Jackie Keith, Teacher-Librarian, NBCT
Riverbend High School 
12301 Spotswood Furnace Rd.
Fredericksburg, VA 22407
jkeith@hs.spotsylvania.k12.va.us
540-548-4051 x1123
540-548-2964 fax
http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/rhs/library

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