Inserting Several Placeholders for Graphics

[April]

I am using PowerPoint 2000. I need to create a template
that can be used fairly intuitively by others - as sort of
an orderform for display items. The graphics are custom
designed by an outside vendor and exist outside of the
Clipart Gallery.

Ultimately I would like to have several "Click to add
Pictures" placeholders on this template and each
placeholder would be locked into a certain size. By
clicking on these placeholders they should navigate to the
files where the custom graphics are stored - not the
Clipart Gallery - select their preferred picture and have
it insert into the placeholder.

Is this doable? Thanks for your help.

~April

 

[Sonia]

You cannot add placeholders, unfortunately. The closest you can get is to
layout a slide the way you want and then duplicate and edit it to create more.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I am using PowerPoint 2000. I need to create a template
that can be used fairly intuitively by others - as sort of
an orderform for display items. The graphics are custom
designed by an outside vendor and exist outside of the
Clipart Gallery.

Ultimately I would like to have several "Click to add
Pictures" placeholders on this template and each
placeholder would be locked into a certain size. By
clicking on these placeholders they should navigate to the
files where the custom graphics are stored - not the
Clipart Gallery - select their preferred picture and have
it insert into the placeholder.

You can't add placeholders as Sonia's mentioned; you could do something akin
to this with an add-in, however. For example, the user could click a button on
a toolbar that calls up a dialog where they choose the graphic, then inserts it
into a predefined space on the current slide.

The add-in would need to be installed on each user's computer for this to work,
and the graphics would need to be there too, or on a commonly available network
server.

 

[April Klein]

That would work well. How do I get access to an add-in
that would do this for me?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

That would work well. How do I get access to an add-in
that would do this for me?

Do you have VB/VBA experience or have access to a vb/vba programmer on staff or
locally? If so, it could be a do-it-yourself proposition.

Some of us here do custom PPT programming work as well.
You can email me at steve at-sign pptools dot com

If others are interested, they can reply here too.