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Tutorials - Batch Images to Slides Import in PowerPoint

This document explains how to batch import images for PowerPoint 2000 on the PC. This is valuable if you have a great deal of images that you want to convert into slides in a PowerPoint project. It should be noted that if you have a more resent version of Microsoft PowerPoint, it is highly likely that it has the image import wizard built in by the name of auto image gallery.

1. Open Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 for the PC.

2. Load the import wizard script.
to do this go to the Tools menu and select "add-Ins"

Download the ImageImportWizzard. The evaluation version of this software is free, and can be purchased if you find it useful.

Then go to "Tools", "Image Importer Wizard", "Launch Wizard"

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First you are asked to which presentation you would like to import the images to. You can either chouse your current PowerPoint presentation or insert them into a New Presentation.
If inserting into a New Presentation, use templates/layouts to structure the image importing. If inserting into the current presentation you can use your Master Slide to structure the appearance.
Here you can also define how many images you want to appear on each slide. Additionally you can "Load" settings. If you have saved your settings from a previous session.

Here you can specify the size of the images relative to the slide or set image to the backround of the slide.

Here you Select the Folders where the images are located. You can select a list of folders by selecting "Browse" and adding different locations to the folder list.

Here you select the format of the images. PowerPoint does not support photoshop files so be sure to save your scaned images as .jpg

The image Import Wizard searches though the folders and imports all the images. Here you select which images you want to in include. If you want to include the entire image that the Wizard found in the folders select "Select All". You can also change the order by selecting "Set order", and add relative text to each slide by selecting "add captions"

You have now completed the wizard. Here you can "save the settings" so you can keep the same settings for future batch image importing sessions.
Click on Finish and your presntation should show up.

If you want to Title the slides with text you can set your master slide so that the title text will not be on top of your images. One way to do that would be to set the background and the text to black and then move the title text to the bottom layer in the master slide. Then when you name each slide in the slide view the title text will no show up on top of your image.