After you've downloaded the add-in program, the new PhotoAlbum Wizard appears in the File New dialog box. To create a photo album, click New on the File menu, click File on the General tab, and then click OK. In the dialog box that appears, specify the location of the pictures you want and choose from other options.

You can specify pictures from your local machine or a network drive, or add pictures to the photo album directly from a scanner or digital camera. Once you've got the pictures you want in the list, you can change their order and rotate them if necessary.

You can also add text boxes to the list along with pictures. See the tip below to learn how to use text boxes in combination with layouts to get the look you want.

Next, pick from a variety of layout and style options for your photo album. You can choose the number of pictures per slide and pick from a variety of frame styles and design templates. Design templates for photo albums are just like design templates for PowerPoint® presentations, but with festive elements and backgrounds suggesting weddings, babies, or scrapbooks.

You can also choose to have a caption for each picture. By default, the file name of the picture is entered into the caption. Once you create the photo album by clicking Create, you return to PowerPoint, where you can change the caption text.

For detailed, step-by-step instructions, see Photo Album Add-in Program for PowerPoint 2000.

Note  Once you have created the photo album, you cannot return to the Photo Album dialog box to make changes to photo album options. Make the changes you want directly on the slides in PowerPoint, or create a new photo album with the same pictures.

Tips

• Text boxes can help you group pictures on slides. For example, you may want to group three pictures together on a slide, but there is no predefined three-picture layout. Instead, specify the pictures you want, choose a four-picture layout (either 4 pictures or 4 pictures with title) in the Layout list, and then click Insert Text Box to insert text boxes in the list. Use the Up and Down buttons to move the text boxes and pictures to the positions you want. When you return to PowerPoint, you can enter text in the text boxes if you want to use them as captions, or leave them blank.
• If you just want to get a bunch of pictures into a presentation - for example, a series of flow charts or instructional illustrations - and you're not interested in other special layouts or album designs, just specify the pictures you want, and then click Create. You'll get a presentation with one picture on each slide, sized to take up the entire slide (the Fit to slide layout, which is selected by default). Again, once you've returned to PowerPoint, you can work with the presentation as you normally would.
• If you are working with a scanner or digital camera, make sure it is connected to your computer, that it is TWAIN-compatible, and that the device software that supports TWAIN is installed. For more information about working with scanners and digital cameras, type scanners and cameras in the Office Assistant or on the Answer Wizard tab in the PowerPoint Help window, and then click Search.