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**On-Line Technology Practice Modules - Microsoft Excel**
This page contains an extensive collection of modules for using PowerPoint for classroom projects. http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line_powerpoint.htm

Creating a "Photo Album" - The quick way to make a slide show with many photographs:
1. Open PowerPoint. 2. Click on **//Insert// > //Picture//**. 3. Choose '//**New Photo Album**//'. 4. From the window that opens, click on the File/Disk button. 5. **Browse** to the location of the disk or folder that contains your pictures. 6. Select all of the pictures in the folder by clicking the first picture in the list and then holding down the shift key and clicking on the last picture. If you want to select only //some// of the photos, hold down the Control button as you select the photos you want. 7. Once you have selected the pictures to be included, click on **//Insert.//** 8. You now have a slide with each picture in it. The pictures will resize to fit to the slide. 9. To reduce file size of the slide show, select one picture. On the Format Picture tool bar, click the **//Compress//** button. In the dialog box that opens, select **All Pictures in Document**.

You will have lots of options in the album content window to choose from.

=Compressing Images in Your Slide Show= //(This also works for Word documents)// When inserting many images (photographs, clipart, etc.) in your slideshow, the file size of the finished product can be quite large. To reduce file file, compress your images.
 * 1.** Select any one image in your slide show.
 * 2.** The Picture Toolbar should appear. (If not, got to View>Toolbars>Picture).
 * 3.** Click the Compress Pictures button.

//Following these steps can potentially save you a lot of space!//
 * 4.** The Compress Pictures dialog box will open.
 * 5.** Select the radio button "//All pictures in document//".
 * 6.** If the document will be used on the web, you may want to choose the '//Web/Screen//' radio button.
 * 7.** Make sure the '//Compress pictures//' and '//Delete cropped areas of pictures//' options are checked.
 * 8.** Click //OK// when done.