TLC Tips of the Week:                          from Helen Olberg

This tip applies to PowerPoint 2002.

Would you like to organize your pictures into a PowerPoint presentation for viewing by your class, family, or friends? Here’s how to do it quickly, rather than creating one slide at a time, and changing it:

In PowerPoint 2002,

1.      Click the menu item Insert>Picture>New Photo Album. This will create a new presentation into which your slides will be placed.

2.      In the ‘Photo Album’ dialog box, under ‘Insert Picture from:’ you can add pictures from your hard disk or a peripheral device, such as a scanner or digital camera. To add pictures from your hard drive, click the File/Disk button.

3.      In the ‘Insert New Pictures’ dialog box, browse to the folder or disk containing the pictures you want to include in your photo album.

4.      Select the picture or pictures you want.

a.       For a single picture - click the picture.

b.      For multiple contiguous pictures, click the first one, use the scroll bar to locate the last one, and hold down the Shift key as you click the last one.

c.       For multiple non-contiguous pictures, hold down the Ctrl key as you click each of the ones you want. (Hint: clicking a picture a second time while holding the Ctrl key will deselect it.)

5.      Click Insert.

6.      Notice that the Photo Album dialog box now has a list of your pictures. You may change their order, add Text boxes, and specify how many pictures should appear on each slide. When finished adjusting these, click Create.

7.      View/change your slides.

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