Jim has similar tools for earlier Mac PowerPoint versions:

This tool can import a folder's worth of pictures into PowerPoint 2011 for Mac. Mac Office MVP Jim Gordon's Insert Picture for 2011 PowerPoint add-in is now available for purchase. And if it doesn't, he's probably added the feature since I wrote this, so now it does.

MVP Shyam Pillai has written an incredibly useful, full-featured Image Importer Wizard that lets you do virtually any sort of batch image import you might want.

If the Photo Album feature isn't available for your version of PowerPoint or Photo Albums don't meet your needs for some other reason, there are other ways of inserting lots of photos quickly.

PowerPoint 97 and Mac PowerPoint versions don't have the Photo Album feature.īut before using Photo Albums, read this.

PowerPoint 2000, use the free Microsoft Photo Album add-in for PowerPoint 2000.

PowerPoint 2002 or 2003: choose Insert, Picture, New Photo Album.

PowerPoint 2007 or higher: click the Insert tab then choose Photo Album.

You get to the Photo Album feature in different ways, depending on the version of PowerPoint you have: And it'd be nice if PowerPoint would insert new slides, one per image, right? Right.

When you click OK, they'll all be inserted at one time onto the current slide.īut more likely you want one picture per slide. If you have PowerPoint XP (2002) or higher you can choose Insert, Picture, From File and select multiple picture files. How can I batch import lots of pictures into PowerPoint?

Powerpoint photo album for mac