If you want to add captions to slides in Microsoft PowerPoint, there are a few things you need to know. First, you need to create a slide caption area. Then, you need to add the text for your captions. Finally, you need to add the images for your captions. To create a slide caption area:

  1. Open the Microsoft PowerPoint file that you want to use as your slide show.
  2. On the left side of the main screen, click on the New button.
  3. In the new window that opens, enter a name for your slide caption area and click on OK.
  4. On the right side of the main screen, click on the OK button again to close the New Caption dialog box.
  5. To add text for your captions:
  6. Open Microsoft PowerPoint and click on one of the slides in your presentation (or open a new one if you’re using a previous version of Microsoft PowerPoint).
  7. On the left side of the main screen, click on Insert > Text > Slides (or press F5).
  8. In this dialog box, select a text font and size and then click on OK to insert it into your slide caption area (assuming that it was inserted successfully). 4. To add images for your captions: 1) Open Microsoft PowerPoint and click on one of the slides in your presentation (or open a new one if you’re using a previous version of Microsoft PowerPoint). 2) Click on File > Save As… 3) In this dialog box, select an image format and then click on Save as (assuming that it was saved successfully). 4) Click on File > Close to close all three files involved in creating your slide caption area and text/images combo

Adding a caption to an image is an effective method for providing additional context of the image or giving proper credits to the image owner. Here is how to insert image captions in Microsoft PowerPoint.

Open PowerPoint and insert the image you would like to add a caption to. To insert an image, navigate to the “Insert” tab and select “Pictures,” found in the “Images” group.

In the drop-down menu that appears, select where you would like to insert the image from. You can choose to insert an image from:

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Once you’ve added the image, it’s time to insert the caption. In Word, Microsoft actually provides a feature for embedding an image caption. Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t exist for PowerPoint, so we have to manually insert the caption ourselves by adding a text box under the image.

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Back in the “Insert” tab, select the top half of “Text Box” in the “Text” group, which allows you to draw a horizontal text box anywhere on the slide.

To draw the text box, click and drag your cursor.

With the text box ready, input the caption.

Once you’ve entered the text, resize it as necessary.

Finally, you’ll want to group the image and text together. This is necessary if you plan to move the image around the slide.

To group the image and text together, hold “Ctrl” (“Cmd” on Mac) and select both the image and text box.

With both items selected, click the “Group” button in the “Arrange group of the “Picture Format” tab.

In the drop-down menu that appears, select “Group.”

When selected in the future, the text box and image will appear as a single item.