inserting pictures (always have to resize) (97)

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Every time I insert a jpeg into ppt, I have to resize it (because I want it to fill the whole screen). Is there any way i can change the defaults so that every time I insert a jpeg it automatically fills the screen (or close to it). It would make my photoalbum compiling so much quicker.

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The jpegs are coming in at their default size. So if they were resized before they were inserted. That should work. But it is also a lot of work. And I believe you want to do this in PPT. The best way might be via a macro.
I’m not running PPT 97 anymore – but here is a chuck of sample code from the PPT 2000 help file

Set myDocument = ActivePresentation.Slides(1)
For Each s In myDocument.Shapes
    Select Case s.Type
    Case msoEmbeddedOLEObject, msoLinkedOLEObject, _
            msoOLEControlObject, msoLinkedPicture, msoPicture 
        s.ScaleHeight 1.75, True
        s.ScaleWidth 1.75, True
    Case Else
        s.ScaleHeight 1.75, False
        s.ScaleWidth 1.75, False
    End Select
Next

Just a note – in scaling – you are not setting an absolute measurement – instead objects are scaled relative to their current size. So you might want to make each picture .50 of it’s current height and width.

Cheers

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In addition to WebGenii’s suggestion, you might want to look into the photo album addins that Scott C and Shyam P have developed. You can specify full-screen and import a bunch of images all in one swell foop. http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00050.htm%5B/url%5D

Note that there’s also a photo album addin available free for PPT 2000, and if you’re using PPT 2002/XP, it’s an inherent feature.

Finally, you can resize the images in an image editor so that they’re properly sized (pixel-wise) to come in full-screen. Info on how to do that is available at http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointgraphics.htm%5B/url%5D

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