How do I scan slides (35mm) straight into powerpoint slides?

[D Elm]

I am supposed to scan slides into PowerPoint for someone. I was scanning them
into the program that came with the scanner, saving the images as tiffs, and
then inserting them into powerpoint as background images for each slide. This
was working, but when I tried to open it after 140 slides, it froze every
time. I was wondering if there is a way to make each tiff a slide in
PowerPoint. If not, how can I scan them in as slides.
Thanks,
D

 

[Bill Dilworth]

It is fairly simple, don't.

Well, you can use the Insert => Picture => From scanner commands (depending
on the version of PowerPoint you are using and if you have set up your
TWAIN/WIA interfaces), but I strongly recommend against it.

Most scanners come with software that saves the images to the hard drive.
Some of these will even automatically sequence the image file names for you.

The preferred method for inserting scanned pictures, documents, or slides
into a PowerPoint presentation, is to:
1) Scan the document
2) Save to the hard drive
3) Insert from the hard drive as an image

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[D Elm]

Should I insert them as backgrounds or just pictures? Also, how big should
the pictures be if I want 140+ in a powerpoint?

Thanks,
D

 

[D Elm]

Some slides are text only and others are pictures of skin diseases. Each tiff
is 4.08 MB and I think they were 1024x768 each. Should I insert them as
backgrounds or some other way?

Thanks,
D

 

[D Elm]

Each scan was 8-bits deep. Could that be the memory problem? Also, should I
keep the text slides as tiffs or convert those to jpeg, too?