Captions on photos

[Fred Smith]

I'm using PP2007 under Vista.

I'm looking to import a bunch of slides, full screen, with a caption at the
bottom of the screen. I'm happy for the caption to overlay the bottom of the
picture, as long as it's readable.

When I use Insert>Photo Album, my choices are full screen (Fit to Slide) or
Captions. How do I get both?

I'm OK with typing in the caption, because I have to rename many of my
slides anyways. But I don't want to have to create a text box on each slide.

Can I somehow create a template with a text box on a blank slide, then apply
it to the pictures? Or is there another way?

Thanks,
Fred

 

[Luc]

Fred Smith,
After your photoalbum is finished, go to View - Slide master view - select
the blank layout on your left - click Insert placeholder - choose text -
delete whatever is in the placeholder - type a new prompt like Click and
type caption - close master view. Select all of your slides except the title
slide, on the start tab in the slides group - click reset. Now you can type
in your caption on every slide.
You could also apply a footer to the slides, Insert - Header & Footers -
Apply to All - that would imply typing the footer on each and every slide of
the photo album which is possible in PPT 2007 as footers are now individual
textboxes on every slide.

 

[John Wilson]

Luc methods sound good!

If you want the captions you would have got with the 1 pic per slide album
you can probably automate this (only in 2007)

Sub add_cap()
Dim osld As Slide
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
If osld.Shapes(1).Type = msoPicture Then
With osld.HeadersFooters.Footer
..Visible = True
..Text = osld.Shapes(1).AlternativeText
End With
End If
Next osld
End Sub

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[Fred Smith]

Thanks for your help, guys. Just what I was looking for.

Fred.