MS powerpoint?

[Sarah Atkinson]

Fotunatly I am not to familar with powerpoint. however lately it seems a lot of people have come to me looking for slide shows ranging from simple to complex.

The slide show I have to do today/tomorrow. I'm thinking aboult just using the windows xp, dumping all the pict into one folder then hiting the "View as slideshow" however they want to have a bit more control on speed and would like to have text.

Is there away to have powerpoint bring in a folder dull of picts and put each one on it's own slide automaticly?

[KimmoA]

Just a question: Why do you take a job/mission that you don't know how to do? I don't know your situation, but it sounds like you could've just said that you don't have experience with that software.

Not like the program itself is hard to use. Just stupid. I remember it from Office 97 or so.

[Sarah Atkinson]

Well the first one it was my mother asking... she's a hard one to turn down. She's a professor and she used over head projectors in her leactures however the new building the univerity built does not have over head projectors and they are having everyone switch to powerpoint. The Fauculty is responible for their own powerpoint files. Either my mother would have to learn it and do it or I would. It took me forever to teach my mother MS word so I figured it would be best to do it myself (and she was will ing to pay my $10 and hour which realy came in handy to buy these great FFs that I just adored but that's another story.

The second one is at my current job. I'm sort of the creative technology go to person here and they promised a slide show presintation to sponsers months ago and they have to do it this friday... of course the actual technical parts of doing it didn't pop up in peoples minds till 2 days ago.

Does that explain it?

[Sarah Atkinson]

oh and I have an attitude "If I don't know I, I can learn it"

[jessejump]

Yes, Powerpoint can be learned in 2-3-4-5 days or so. Put images and text on a slide - animate them or not - make transitions between slides. You will get it fast.

[Sarah Atkinson]

is there anyway to import say 50 images and stick each on on it's own slide all in one step?

[limbo]

Hi Sarah.

Unfortunately no you can insert a batch of images in separate slides, well not that I have seen (I have a couple of years experience producing conference presentations)

The quick keys are your only friend in PowerPoint - because it is not going to help you!

> Create a slide. Copy this slide and past many times (50)
> Select each slide and use alt + i, p, f (it'll remember the folder you last used)

I had to do the same thing for a 90 page show - time consuming was not the word!

The other alternative would be to make an html show using JavaScript and 'full screen' to mimic PowerPoint. Transitions suck anyway.

>> added - thinking about it you might be able to do this with a macro - but I am not sure where you would start with that.

[Sarah Atkinson]

i give up ... I tried to create them in a power point but it's just going to be too much work.. I past it on to someone else. I can't deal with the extra stress right now.... I think I past my max stress level sometime ago.