How to create a PowerPoint slide show from list of photos/pictures

Quick steps to create a photo show

• Open Microsoft PowerPoint• Click on “Insert” memu tab (upper-left corner)• Click on “Photo Album”, choose “New Photo Album”• Click on ”File/Disk”, then browse to the directory that contains

the photos or pictures, press click while holding down “Ctrl” key to do multiple selection, then click “Insert” button

• Click on “Create” button on the lower-right corner.• It will create a new PowerPoint slide show• Go back to slide-1 to edit the Title slide• Insert comments/text in each slide if needed.• Insert background music if needed. (see next slide)

How to insert background music

• Open your existing PowerPoint file• Click on “Insert” memu tab (upper-left corner)• Click on “Sound”, choose “Sound From File…”, browse to your music mp3 file, then click “OK”• choose how would you like the music started (auto or clicked)

Here’s a sample music file inserted, violin for“my motherland”Chinese folk song

How to insert movie clip

• Open your existing PowerPoint file• Click on “Insert” memu tab (upper-left corner)• Click on “Movie”, choose “Movie From File…”,

browse to your video file, then click “OK”• choose how would you like the music started

(auto or clicked)• Notice that video files are usually large in size, it

will make your powerpoint slide even bigger.