I create a PPT presentation with lots of images. When I copy the image into the slide, the image is 5x times bigger than then slide, overflowing the visible frame of course... Making it smaller takes a lot of work with mouse (resizing, dragging etc.). Doing this with 100+ photos is pretty annoying.
How to persuade PowerPoint (I use PPT 2003) to behave reasonably by default? How to make this process as comfortable as possible? I would like to have all the images zoomed exactly to the slide.
It is fairly easy (note that the english words might be slightly different; I am trying to translate it back to english from Czech PowerPoint. Damned localizations, hate 'em):
Menu: Insert -> Picture -> New photoalbum -> File or diskette
choose all the pictures you want to add and confirm
make sure that layout is set to "resize to slide"
click create
Fairly easy and exactly what I needed!! No need to resize images manually etc.!
You can resize an individual photo easily with many programs, such as IrfanView (a favorite of mine), or you can make shrunk versions of a whole folder full of files in one swell foop by using EasyThumbnails. It's intended for making thumbnails, but you can adjust the output size to whatever you want, so it should work fine for this. It's freeware: http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/
