{"id":3654,"date":"2012-06-19T15:21:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2012-06-19T15:21:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T07:21:59","slug":"how-to-insert-multiple-images-to-create-a-powerpoint-slideshow-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/librariansmatter.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/how-to-insert-multiple-images-to-create-a-powerpoint-slideshow-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to insert multiple images to create a PowerPoint slideshow on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love it when the Internet makes me feel clever just because I can follow instructions. I just used the Automator<\/a> that comes with the Mac. I created a little application to do what Powerpoint could not.<\/p>\n

Smug Windows users do not need to read this. Your version of Powerpoint allows you to insert an album of images and instantly have one slide created for each one.<\/p>\n

For the Mac, this functionality does not come with Powerpoint.<\/p>\n

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I decided to use Keynote for the first time when creating my presentation for the State Library of Queensland on Thursday. I used one of the funky fonts that came with Keynote and – of course – when I exported my slideshow to Powerpoint and tried it on someone else’s PC, all the pretty font formatting disappeared. I knew that I would have to do what Kate<\/a> suggested – export each slide as an image and then import it into a new Powerpoint slideshow.<\/p>\n

I *may* have *cough* over 100 *cough* slides, so did not fancy inserting each image one by one.<\/p>\n

So – bless the little cotton socks of Stephen Rinsberg who created the PPTTools site. His page about how to BATCH Import Images into PowerPoint<\/a> page showed me how to open the Automator, add in an “Ask for Finder Items” Variable, then add a “Create PowerPoint Picture Slideshow” , save the thing to my desktop, click to run and SOLVE MY PROBLEM. It did leave a white border around each slide, but since most of my slides had a white background anyhow it does not look bad enough for me to manually adjust each one.<\/p>\n

Note to self: Play with the Automator. Find out more about it. It looks fun and powerful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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