AboutJohn Wilson Expertise Any questions related to PowerPoint including complex animations and vba coding.
Experience Using PowerPoint since PowerPoint 4 on a Mac to create professional presentations for education and industry. Currently MD of Technology Trish Ltd and webmaster of PowerPoint Alchemy (http://www.PPTAlchemy.co.uk)
Education/Credentials Microsoft Office Specialist (Powerpoint)
Microsoft MVP Powerpoint 2007
Question QUESTION: I just last night learned how to create a photo album. It's cool it's so easy! Since I want a caption on each slide, I chose the "1 picture" layout.
It's great, but not yet ideal. I still need three things for it to suit my needs:
1) The picture is not filling the slide, but I need more room still to add in my captions, anywhere from 1-3 sentences. Can I resize the whole deck? (Or perhaps create the album differently from the beginning?)
2) The pics came in with an extremely thick border! I was a bit surprised. How can I change the border weight on all at once?
3) Where do I define the default style for captions?
Thanks!
Sarah
P.S. I'm using Office 2003.
ANSWER: Photo Album is quick and easy but not very flexible!
The caption format is picked up from the template you choose. The other things are pretty well fixed. You can fairly quickly change the border. Set one picture how you like it. Double click on the format painter tool (looks like a paintbrush) and then go through the album clicking on each picture.
Glad to know I wasn't missing something obvious. ;-)
I tried using the code on that page, and it did not work. Here's what happened:
Since I'm using Office 2003, I followed the directions for replacing that one line of code. I used "If oshp.Fill.Type = msoFillPicture Then" and erased the original line. I then selected the first picture (formatted the way I wanted it) and ran the macro. While every picture in the deck was indeed reformatted, every single one was replaced with picture 1! The darnedest thing is that they still retained their *original* shape and size, but they were all the identical picture (or various portions thereof).
Out of curiosity, I then ran the macro with the original 2007 line of code ("If oshp.Type = msoPicture Then"). In this case, the picture on my title page changed, but no other one did.
Since I'm not familiar with VBA myself, I don't know what's wrong with this code. (I have only tried the photoalbum macro, and not the one called centrepic.)
Any further help you might offer?
Thanks!
Sarah
Answer Hi Sarah
had a quick look. Because of the weird way PPT inserts the caption the code is failing. It was designed for pictures without a caption. Maybe you could add the captions later in a normal textbox?
When I have less work! I will see if I can modify the code.
