PowerPoint – An Old Feature Newly Found

This weekend I discovered something new in PowerPoint that has been there for generations (at least since 2002 anyway). I was amazed to find that it existed, because it’s something I have looked for in the past.

Occasionally I want to load a lot of pictures into separate slides in PowerPoint to make a photo album in the middle of a presentation. I’ve always done this manually, create slide, add picture, create slide add picture. It takes ages.

This weekend someone pointed out to me a feature which does just that, automatically.

You’ll find it under “Insert Picture” – “New Photo Album”.

If you then click on “File/Disk” you can select a load of picture files.

You can then reorder the pictures and even pick a layout for the pictures on the slides.

I hate to think how many hours this would have saved me over the years.

But I suppose you all knew that this feature existed and just hadn’t bothered to tell me.