Captions on photos

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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
 
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.
 
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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