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Impress Photo Album

Inserts a photo album into your presentation document.

The Impress photo album is a quick way to insert several pictures into a presentation and create a document suitable to run continuously in a kiosk or multimedia show.

To access this command...

Choose Insert – Media – Photo Album

Impress Photo Album Dialogue Box

To insert a photo album into your presentation

  1. Open an existing or blank presentation.

  2. Go to the slide that precedes the photo album.

  3. Choose Insert – Media – Photo Album.

  4. In the Create Photo Album dialogue box, click Add.

  5. Locate the files you want to insert.

If several images are in the same folder, you can select a group of photos using the Shift or Ctrl keys while clicking on their filenames.

  1. Click Open to add the files to the Photo Album.

Click on a file name to display it in the Preview area

  1. Select the number of images per slide in the Slide layout list box.

  2. Mark Add caption to each slide check box if necessary, to insert a text box for the caption.

  3. Mark Keep aspect ratio check box to avoid distorting the images when laying them in the slide. The image will be fully contained in the slide.

  4. Mark Fill screen to make the image fill the whole presentation screen. The resulting image may be larger than the slide.

  5. Mark Link images to create a link to the image location in your file system or internet. This option will not embed the images in the presentation document.

  6. Click Insert Slides.

Clicking Undo will not delete a photo album. Right-click the slides on the slide panel and select Delete Slide to delete the slides.