Use captions on a full screen Photo album in PowerPoint 2007

Use captions on a full screen Photo album in PowerPoint 2007

You can't have captions in a photoalbum when you choose fit to slide as a layout. Starting with one picture a slide you can. In fact the captions checkbox is greyed out. Fortunately there are workarounds. Here's how:
First workaround, insert a footer on all of your slides.
Here are the steps:

1. Make your photoalbum first using Insert - Photoalbum - fit to slide.
2. Go to Insert tab, click Header/footer button in the Text group.
3. Check the footer box, click Apply to all.
4. Now all you have to do is click in the footer box of every slide and type your caption. This only works in PPT 2007 as each footer is now an individual textbox on the slide.

Second workaround, adapt the blank slide layout by adding a custom textbox.
Here are the steps:

1. Make your photo album first using Insert - Photoalbum - Fit to slide.
2. Go to the View tab,  click the Slide master view button, in the Presentation views group.
3. Select the blank slide layout beneath the master slide.
4. Click the Insert placeholder button in the Master layout group.
5. Choose Text, drag an appropriate box on the blank layout. Format it the way you want. You can select the bullet and start typing your prompt, remove the bullet when you are done.
6. Click the Slide Master tab, click the Close Master button.
7. Now all you have to do is click in the text box with your own prompt and type your caption. This only works in PPT 2007 as adding placeholders is a new feature there.